Russian energy companies continue to use foreign software and hardware, which makes them vulnerable from the point of view of cybersecurity. Such conclusions were made following the results of the next meeting of the interdepartmental commission of the Security Council of Russia on information security. As the official representative of the Security Council staff, Yevgeny Anoshin, told the correspondent of "RG", the members of the commission stressed that the vulnerability of Russian enterprises using foreign software, in particular, is due to its undeclared capabilities. Therefore, according to him, special attention was paid at the meeting to the need to assess the compliance of the software used with the security requirements of the national standardization system.
In addition, the participants of the Security Council commission worked out additional measures in the field of improving legislation on the protection of critical infrastructure facilities of the Russian energy sector.
As Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Yuri Kokov said earlier in an interview with RG, in the conditions of rapid development of digital technologies, there are huge risks of using the virtual space itself as a cyber weapon. According to Kokov, unauthorized interference in the operation of control systems for potentially dangerous and critically important facilities, including transport and fuel and energy infrastructure, can provoke man-made disasters with large human casualties, as well as large-scale economic and environmental damage.
As such an attack, the Deputy Secretary of the Security Council cited an accident in the power distribution network at the uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, which the Iranian authorities classify as a terrorist attack.
Ivan Egorov
