Business In Hi-Tech

Merlion signed the distributor agreement with Zextras company, the leading world developer of Zimbra OSE mail server extension, within the development of the project MerliOnCloud and became the first in Russia to start sale of communication platform Zextras Cloud on the SaaS model (Software as a Service).

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".

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.

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.

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.

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

"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."

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.

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.

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