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The Russian President created a new Department for information security


Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree increasing the number of departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia from 41 to 42.  According to the Facebook page of the Department, the new 42nd Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry will deal with international information security, including the fight against the use of information technologies for military-political, terrorist and other criminal purposes.

The decree came into force on December 27, 2019.  The number of employees of the Central office of the Russian Foreign Ministry increased from 3,358 people to 3,391 people. The decree establishes a staff payroll for a year in the amount of 3,521,914.7 thousand rubles ($57,000).

Employees of the Department will have to propose measures to improve legislation to make it easier to cooperate with other countries and international organizations on the topic of information security.

"The main idea of the department is the development of generally accepted rules for conducting a cyber environment and for a collective response to challenges,” said Maria Zakharova, an official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, at the end of 2018, the Permanent Representative of Russia in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, announced that a new information security division would appear in the structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He noted that the decision was made due to the fact that information threats have recently become more relevant.

Recall that on December 28, it became known that the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution proposed by Russia to combat cybercrime.  The US did not support the initiative, considering the document redundant, as there is already an agreement on cybercrime, it's the Budapest Convention. 

The American side believes that the resolution is beneficial to Russia to create the necessary "type of control over the Internet space."

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the adopted resolution a new page in the history of the fight against cybercrime, stressing that the document actually secured the digital sovereignty of States over their information space.


source https://www.ehackingnews.com/2019/12/the-russian-president-created-new.html
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