Kommersant learned about the emergence of a cybersecurity consortium in Russia

The idea of ​​creating a consortium of the largest Russian companies in the field of information security was proposed by the founder of Positive Technologies Yuri Maksimov. The initiative was supported by the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Rosatom,

A consortium in the field of information security will appear in RUSSIA, which will include "market leaders, the state and representatives of key industries," Yury Maksimov, founder of Positive Technologies, told Kommersant.

“We are joining forces to systematically improve the industry in order to create a product with which, in the event of a cyber conflict, one state will not be able to cause unacceptable damage to another,” he said.

Under the current legislation in Russia, there is no concept of a “consortium”, but there is a “partnership”, which involves the conclusion of an agreement on the joint activities of several legal entities acting jointly without forming a legal entity for profit, the publication clarifies. The legal structure of the project is "in the process of development, it must be agreed upon by all partners," a newspaper source close to the project said.

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The HEAD of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, supported the initiative. “The cybersecurity industry is experiencing certain difficulties: the volume of orders has grown, companies have begun testing infrastructure, the demand for pentests (penetration testing) and Bug Bounty (vulnerability search programs) has grown,” he told Kommersant on the sidelines of SPIEF.

Kaspersky Lab is also ready to explore the possibility of joining the consortium. “We support cooperation in the field of cybersecurity, now the industry lacks resources, so the merger would be useful,” the head of the company Evgeny Kaspersky told Kommersant, noting that the company is ready to consider “the possibility of participation as soon as details are available.”

The intention to enter the consortium was also reported to R-Vision. “Only by joining forces, the market can create an effective sovereign cybersecurity,” says Sergey Gordeychik, head of Cyberok.

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Some large corporations also support the idea. Rosatom is one of the initiators of the consortium being created, Ekaterina Solntseva, DIRECTOR of digitalization of the Group of Companies, told the newspaper. “The pooling of resources and capabilities will bring the next generation of cybersecurity systems to the domestic and global market, the key characteristic of which will be their effectiveness,” she added.

The White House confirmed the conduct of "cyber operations" against Russia Politics

Since the beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, the number of cyberattacks on Russian organizations has increased significantly compared to the same periods last year.

So, in March, the number of DDoS attacks increased by eight times, and most attacks were made on banks - 35% of the total, experts from Kaspersky Lab found out. At the same time, a third of the attacks fell on state bodies, almost every tenth (9%) on educational institutions, and 3% on the media. In mid-May, Sberbank reported that more than 100,000 hackers were participating in the "cyber war" against Russia.

The purpose of DDoS attacks is to disrupt the infrastructure of the attacked company. To conduct them, hackers use botnet networks or other methods to create an avalanche-like increase in requests to an online resource, increase the load on it to the maximum, and thereby disable it. Botnet networks can consist, for example, of infected computers that hackers use remotely without the knowledge of the user, or of other devices, such as smart speakers, etc. The size of botnet networks can reach hundreds of thousands of devices.

In early June, U.S. Cyber ​​Command chief General Paul Nakasone told Sky News that the United States was conducting a series of "offensive digital operations" in support of Ukraine. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed the conduct of "cyber operations" against Russia, but noted that the White House does not see contradictions in cyber operations and a direct conflict with Russia.