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2021: The Ministry of Digital Affairs is creating a situation center for monitoring communication infrastructure

In June 2021, the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation gave FSBI Svyazist the authority to organize a situation center (SC) to monitor communication infrastructure and data centers. The budget department will monitor the quality of service provision, coordinate the work of operators in emergency situations, collect data on accidents on networks and inform the Ministry of Digital Affairs about them.

About this writes "Kommersant" with reference to the corresponding order of the Ministry of Digital Affairs. According to the document, the FSBI will receive the right to request information from Roskomnadzor and telecom operators. In addition, the new role of Svyazist will coordinate the work of telecom operators "to fulfill the tasks set by the president and the government." His powers will also include collecting information from election surveillance cameras and conducting exercises on the sustainability of runet. The situation center of Roskomnadzor, which was liquidated in December 2019, previously had similar powers.

Ministry of Digital Affairs forms a situation center for monitoring communication infrastructure

The Ministry of Digital Affairs told the publication that 141 million rubles of budget funds were allocated for the work of the situation center in 2021.

The publication Kommersant refers to business concerns about the duplication of the functions of state the detection, prevention and response system with the new CC, computer attacks FSB which is already monitoring security incidents on communication networks. The appearance of the next center will require reporting to it, which only bureaucratizes the relationship of business and the regulator, one of the market sources told the newspaper.

According to Stanislav Mirin, a leading analyst at the iKS-Consulting, the new situation center is designed to solve more operational problems, while Roskomnadzor is talking about "strategic management."^[1]

2020: 175 million rubles allocated for the creation of a situation center of the communications market

On October 12, 2020, it became known that the government commission supported the creation of a situation center (SC) for monitoring communication infrastructure and data centers. 175 million rubles were allocated for the implementation of the initiative from the federal project "Information Infrastructure."

As To the businessman told "" in, the Mintsifra situation center to ensure the sustainable functioning of the communications infrastructure and data centers is created by the FSBI Svyazist (manages the real estate of the ministry, is engaged in development and expertise). It will become a single point of reception of industry information in case of emergencies, and will also monitor how operators comply with the conditions for the provision of communication services to socially significant facilities within the framework Digital Economy of "," and predict the development of the industry, the deputy head of the ministry said. Oleg Ivanov

175 million rubles allocated for the development of the situation center of the communications market

According to the director of the Information Infrastructure Department of ANO TsERoman Yakovlev, the CC will become a single window for submitting data in an automated mode, which was the principled position of the business community.

Now the data are supplied almost manually to several systems, which is very inconvenient and time consuming, "he added.

All large Russian data centers by October 2020 already have their own monitoring systems, and in case of emergency situations they are able to independently eliminate problems and restore performance, said iKS-Consulting analyst Stanislav Mirin.

According to Pavel Kolmychek, operating director of KROK Cloud Services, if only suppliers for state contracts are controlled, the initiative to create a CC looks acceptable, but collecting a wide range of "sensitive data" - from full information about the list of services and free resources to the tariffs of commercial players - is unlikely to benefit the industry.^[2]

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