Russian IT companies have faced development problems due to VPN traffic restrictions. The difficulties affected access to foreign repositories, libraries, version control systems, and other tools, without which it is difficult to maintain a modern development cycle.
This is especially noticeable for companies that use open source. According to market participants, the share of open source code in the products of young Russian vendors can reach 50–90%. When the connection to external resources is unstable, builds, updates, and code synchronization suffer.
The problem does not always look like a complete block. More often, processes simply begin to "fall apart": connections are interrupted, download speed drops, and errors appear when updating dependencies. Operations that previously took about 10 minutes and were automatic can now stretch for hours and require manual involvement of a developer or administrator.
The industry says that failures have become more systemic since February–March, when not only user VPNs but also corporate tunnels began to fall under restrictions. An additional difficulty is created by foreign services that themselves restrict access for Russian users and companies.
Roskomnadzor states that organizations can access the necessary foreign resources through technical requests. According to the agency, more than 57 thousand addresses and subnets of 1.7 thousand organizations, including developers, have already been added to the exclusion lists.
Market participants warn: if the restrictions also affect corporate VPN for remote access of employees to internal networks, companies will have to look for workaround technical solutions. This can increase costs and create additional risks for information security.
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