Rostec introduces an IT system for controlling employees for 23 million rubles

February 19, 2021 it became known about the introduction by Rostec of an IT system for controlling employees. Thanks to this project, the state corporation intends to combat leaks of confidential data.

Interfax drew attention to this public procurement. The contract value is 23.2 million rubles. According to the terms of reference, the system, which will be implemented at Rostec, should provide interception and analysis of Internet traffic, including search query data, webmail, Skype, Viber and Whatsapp calls, forums, blogs, video and photo hosting, cloud services, as well as correspondence in social networks and instant messengers, in search services for work and on the dating site Mba.

In addition, the new technology will have to monitor the actions of staff for working computers: intercept text data of the clipboard and keystrokes, as well as regularly take screenshots.

Rostec introduces an IT system for controlling employees for 23 million rubles

The system will monitor 2 thousand users of Rostec's central apparatus, reducing the risk of leaks of confidential information and identifying signs of internal fraud and employee actions that cause economic damage to the organization, the material says on the public procurement portal.

According to the news agency, by February 2021, Rostec includes more than 800 scientific and production organizations in 60 regions of the Russian Federation. Key areas of activity are the creation of weapons and military equipment, aircraft engineering, radio electronics and medical technologies. Data breaches in these areas can have serious consequences.

Earlier, Rostec created the company RT-Inform"," which acts as an internal integrator and center of competencies in the field information technologies and. This information security company has launched a corporate center for detection, prevention and response, computer attacks which is also fighting data leaks.^[1]

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