The Russian President, Vladimir Putinhas promulgated this Sunday a decree of security of the information which aims to guarantee the Russian computer systems against possible foreign attacks, but which also grants broad powers in this area to the Federal Security Service (SFS), the Russian federal police.
The text of the Law on Additional Measures for Ensuring Information Security in the Russian Federation requires “to give unrestricted access to the FSS to organizations or information resources that they use through Internet and of their telecommunications networks“, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
Furthermore, if the FSS or the Federal Service of Technical and Export Control consider it necessary to take organizational or technical measures, they must be applied immediately.
Those responsible for the organizations will have “personal responsibility for the security of the informationof these entities.
The legal text also provides for the creation of “structural” units to guarantee information security and since January 1, 2025, the use of information protection tools originating from “unfriendly” countries is prohibited.
To guarantee security, it will be placed “exclusively” to “organizations that have a license to carry out these activities of technical protection of confidential information“, that is to say “exclusively organizations that are accredited by the State to detect, avoid and eliminate the consequences of computer attacks”.