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On the instruction of General Director of Rosseti Centre and Rosseti Centre and Volga region, on 6-8 October 2021, training sessions were held on the basis of Smolenskenergo to discuss modern challenges and threats in the field of information technology.
In addition to experts from the side of the energy companies, representatives of the Ministry of Energy of Russia and the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering named after V.I. Lebedev of the RAS, as well as employees of the information security regulator in the Smolensk region, spoke at the training sessions as invited speakers.
In the format of a round table, measures to protect critical information infrastructure facilities were actively discussed, new solutions to urgent information security problems were worked out, the volume and priority of which increases every day, approaches to the centralized construction of an information protection system were considered. The invited experts talked about responding to computer incidents and the next steps of interaction with regulators. Russian developers of data protection tools organized a presentation of their solutions at technical booths and shared their experience in dealing with the vulnerability of corporate and technological networks using the example of practical cases.
According to Director of the Security Department in the Fuel and Energy Complex of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation Anton Semeikin, the event was useful and passed at a high level: “Such gatherings must be held on an ongoing basis. They help build a constructive dialogue between business representatives, industry workers and regulators. The Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation encourages such an initiative and is ready to support such projects of companies in the fuel and energy complex.”
“The effectiveness of information security systems largely depends on the level of competencies and professional skills of specialists who work with them. Conducting training and methodological meetings just serves these purposes: it allows power engineers to build up knowledge in the field of modern technologies, exchange experience with regulators and developers of cybersecurity tools, and, as a result, implement the most modern data protection mechanisms in their work,” stressed General Director of Rosseti Centre, PJSC Igor Makovskiy.