More than 1000 government employees of the Rostov region studied bases of information security

2020: Carrying out rates on fundamentals of cybersecurity

More than 1000 government employees of the Rostov region studied bases of information security. On September 10, 2020 the SearchInform company reported about it.

A "Protection of Working and Personal Data in Post-crisis Time" course was conducted by experts of SearchInform company under the auspices of the Government of the Rostov region. Listeners learned how to avoid cyberrisks, to ensure safety of personal information and to protect personal data of citizens from swindlers.

The free rate passed in a format online intensivov from September 8 to September 9, 2020, 1000 employees from more than 70 state organizations took part in it.

"Protection of Working and Personal Data in Post-crisis Time" rate universal according to contents also does not require special knowledge in information security field. Within two days listeners worked the basic rules of cybersecurity literacy: how to recognize acceptances of cyberswindlers how not to become responsible for date leak how to protect information on itself and working documents in Network. The separate block of a rate was devoted to the last types of the cybersecurity risks which appeared in connection with a pandemic including at remote work.

Due to the pandemic of a koronavirusny infection and partial transfer of executive authorities and local government of the Rostov region the question of ensuring protection of the processed information sharply got up for remote work. The staff of the ministry of information technologies and communications of the Rostov region carries out work on the organization of remote access of employees of state agencies and risk minimization of leak of the service information. I want to note professional approach of specialists of SearchInform in the organization of a rate that allowed employees to test the gained experience in practice. The gained knowledge and skills significantly increased the level of knowledge of staff of the public and municipal authorities of the Rostov region in information security field that is especially relevant in the conditions of remote work, – the minister of information technologies and communication of the Rostov region Herman Lopatkin notes.

With expansion of digitalization of the sphere of state services more and more data on citizens gets on processing and storage to the public and municipal authorities. This information is of special interest for swindlers in Network. Therefore the staff of the state organizations should be able to distinguish their tricks, to resist to them, not to make data bugs, – the chairman of the board of directors of SearchInform Lev Matveev emphasizes. – We suggested the Government of the Rostov region to train free of charge employees in fundamentals of cybersecurity to give to people practical skills of protection. And starting the project, did not expect such response. Active part was taken, in fact, by all key organizations of area. It says about high responsibility of the region in a question of ensuring cyber security and safety of these inhabitants.

The project of SearchInform on increase in literacy in information security field passes in 15 regions of the country. The Rostov region became one of the first subjects of the Russian Federation where was trained.