... view on a wide range of issues in the area of cybersecurity, including attribution of cyberattacks, strengthening cooperation and trust between states in the use of ICT, etc.
Particular emphasis in the discussion was made on the latest achievements of Russian diplomacy at the United Nations platform in the area of international information security (IIS).
Timur Makhmutov, RIAC Deputy Director of Programs, and Anastasia Tolstukhina, RIAC Program Assistant, represented Russian International Affairs Council at the event, giving comments on the prospects of the UN track in IIS provisioning....
... does not believe, or is unwilling to believe, in the sincerity of the revived fears in the West about Russia’s information influence.
Ironically, the growing focus of the United States on information influence leads to a convergence of the U.S. and Russian approaches to international information security. For years, the
fundamental difference
between the two sides was that the United States viewed cybersecurity in the strict sense of network security, software security and information protection, whereas Russia was additionally concerned ...
The tragedy for Russia and the collective West is that they continue to fight the wars of the past against one another, while underestimating the ideological strength of radical Islam
Since 2013 when the crisis in Ukraine broke out, the notion of information warfare ...
... inseparably linked to the Internet. However, these threats vary depending on their origin, the tools that are at the disposal of the attackers and the scale of damage. How are these threats seen by anti-virus companies? We asked
Boris Sharov
, CEO of the Russia’s oldest anti-virus company Doctor Web, to share his views on the problem and to tell us about his company’s work.
What are the main threats of the Internet for the ordinary user, as well as for banking systems and critical state infrastructure?...
RIAC’s Working Paper “Russia and Challenges of the Digital Environment” offers an inventive view on the problem of Big Data and its relationship with the nation’s digital sovereignty. Among other things, the paper considers the quickly evolving Big Data biological ...
Working paper #15 / 2014
This working paper was written as part of the Russian International Affairs Council’s project “Information Security, Response to Cyber Threats and the Use of the Internet to Defend Russia’s National Interests on the International Scene.”
In their articles, the authors expound on Russia’s presence in cyberspace and suggest the identification ...
