The Russian "State Cloud," which has begun to be adapted to the requirements of the "GosTech" platform, is already used by forty government agencies from among those working with "Rostelecom-Data Centers." This was announced by the Minister of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, at a meeting of the State Council commission on "Communications, Communications, Digital Economy."
The "State Cloud," or GEOP, is a system that ensures data security and infrastructure foundation for ministries, departments, regional public organizations, and enterprises that are of interest to cybercriminals.
It operates on Russian equipment and software. Solutions in server hardware, data storage systems, switches, cloud platform, backup, and information security tools are completely domestic. The final import substitution of some foreign equipment, which was observed in the system at the start of its operation, was carried out from the beginning of 2022.
The development of the "State Cloud" was a response to sanctions against Russia: the fact that the country could be prohibited from importing servers, data storage systems, equipment for data processing centers, and other equipment was predictable. In these conditions, the "State Cloud" service became a way out of the situation. The transfer of government agencies' work from foreign services to the "State Cloud" began in 2019 in an experimental mode, after which it began to gain momentum.
In June 2022, Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev, speaking at the Federation Council, urged regional authorities to actively use the platform to ensure the safety of Russians' personal data.
[During cyberattacks], government websites, which are sources of official information and infrastructure for obtaining digital services, are attacked first. The only way [to cope with this] is to transfer all these sites to a secure mode. We proposed doing this within the framework of a centralized platform – the "State Cloud." We offer regions to "move" to this protected space to guarantee the availability of services regardless of the scale of computer attacks. It makes sense to solve this issue centrally, collecting all sites into one protected infrastructure, rather than creating their own in each region. We are forming a "relocation" plan with regions that do not have the ability to protect sites on their own, giving them the opportunity to use the federal infrastructure free of charge.
By August 2022, according to the Ministry of Digital Development, 21 interested parties were already using the platform's services. Now it is already 40 departments and more than 100 information systems that operate on the infrastructure of "Rostelecom-Data Centers." According to data announced by the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, this is 80% of government bodies from among those that use "Rostelecom-Data Centers." This system remains the only operator of the "State Cloud."
The final transition to the state digital platform in Russia is one of the ten state priorities for the development of the data economy.
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