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Galina Skochko

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Arctic as a territory of innovation: take part in the meeting of the major customers and suppliers of equipment and technologies for arctic facilities

On October 30, within the preparation for TB Forum 2020, a consultation meeting will be held under the name of "Safety of Arctic industry facilities, oil & gas, power sector and transport. Design and operation".

Topics: Our news

Working without cover: almost 80% of banks won’t withstand a hacker attack

78% of Russian financial companies are unable to withstand a large-scale cyberattack.

This follows from the analytical survey of Positive Technologies (Izvestia have its results). Banks don’t know how to behave in case of such an incident, where to go and what documents to prepare, experts told Izvestia. Credit institutions themselves claim that everything isn’t so bad and the number of hacker attacks is decreasing.

Topics: Market Insights & Overview

FPS of Russia will spent about 230 million rubles on modernization of engineering and technical means of protection and supervision

The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (FPS) announced several tenders in the field of security of its facilities in early October. The initial maximum price of contracts is 229.4 million rubles. It’s all about works on modernization of engineering and technical means of protection and supervision at facilities in Omsk and Belgorod regions.

Topics: Current Security Tenders

Alibaba Group, MegaFon, Mail.ru Group and RDIF complete formation of the joint venture

Alibaba Group, MegaFon, Mail.ru Group and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) have completed an investment to establish a joint venture to integrate key Russian consumer Internet and e-commerce platforms and launch a leading joint venture on social commerce in Russia and CIS.

Topics: National infrastructure and major projects

Otkritie bank and Micro Focus have agreed on cooperation

Otkritie bank and Micro Focus reported on the signing of a memorandum of cooperation.

Topics: Strategic Alliances and Distribution

Beward, Grundig Security, DSSL, Hanwa, BIC-inform and others will present 4K Ultra HD cameras

"Today, 4K video cameras occupy about 5-10% of the Russian market, – consider Eugene Lee, an engineer at Hikvision. – However, the market is well prepared for the widespread distribution of such solutions."

Topics: Our news

Cybercrime in Russia is growing faster than any other type of crime

According to the Prosecutor General's office, for the first eight months of 2019, the number of registered crimes in Russia showed an annual growth of almost 67%. Cybercrime is ahead of all other types of crime. The growth was almost double in 2018.

Topics: Market Insights & Overview

430 million rubles will be spent on the development of infrastructure of hardware and software complex Safe city in St. Petersburg

We present a tender in the field of urban security. It’s about the development of infrastructure of the hardware and software complex Safe city in St. Petersburg, concretely about the creation of video surveillance systems and zones of wireless access to the Internet. The customer is the St. Petersburg state unitary enterprise Smolny automatic telephone station. According to the technical specification, the systems will use street speed dome rotary IP cameras and street cylindrical IP cameras.

Topics: Current Security Tenders

Chinese company Shenzhen Sunwin won the tender to implement the 2nd stage of the Safe city project in Kyrgyzstan

The state committee of information technologies and communications and the tender commission announced the results of the competition.

Topics: National infrastructure and major projects

The British are buying up sites to take a quarter of the commercial market of data сenters in Russia

IXcellerate, the British project in Russia, in the presence of Prince Michael of Kent, opened its second data center in Moscow to place client server racks and is going to acquire other four sites for the construction of data centers by February 2020. By 2023, they’re planned to take 15 thousand of racks, what should allow the company to take 25% of the commercial market.

Topics: Strategic Alliances and Distribution