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The Russian government has just passed a new law that makes Internet and Telecom user data storage mandatory countrywide. All calls, texts, chats and web browsing activity will be monitored and stored by the country's Internet and Telecom providers. Gathered information can be accessed by authorities and several government agencies without a warrant.

The Russian access control market shows steady progress. Revenues have shrunk, but sales dynamics are different across segments. It is access control brands targeting high-end and low-end customers who perform better financially.

Choosing from the multiple options available for IP cameras in Russia, buyers often compare up to 20 features. All-over-IP Expo experts have shared their observations on the way local buyers change their behavior towards five popular IP camera features.

In the machine vision world, an increasing number of solution providers develop applications based on embedded computing technology. Embedded means that individual components of a vision system are combined in one device in these applications. System integrators can now make a small system with enough processing power to do something useful with vision – and that doesn’t cost too much – which they couldn't do five years ago.

Information Security Magazine by InfoSecurity Russia met with Alexey Andriyashin, Lead Systems Engineer at Fortinet Russia and asked him about Fortinet vision of Russian market, how the import substitution influenced Fortinet policy and which market gaps can be successfully filled up by international companies.

Sadly the events in Paris and more recently the suicide bombing of Brussels airport and Metro have underlined the difficulties of protecting crowds in public spaces. There is certainly a recognition, Europe-wide, that more should be done at stadiums, airports and transport hubs, entertainment venues, shopping centres and other public spaces. With Euro 2016 just weeks away, had strengthened security requirements for the fan zones, for example, by tightening entry controls by means of the systematic frisking of spectators and the use of CCTV in all fan zones. Now is the favorable time and the right set of circumstances for international security vendors to be involved to big projects in anticipation of 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

InfoSecurity Russia Team is delighted to announce this year's Keynote Speakers!

Today, Safe City Hardware and Software Complex in Russia is mainly based on foreign products and technologies, especially in terms of information gathering, communication systems, data processing and analysis, geographic information systems and process control systems. Moreover, segment of the telecommunication equipment, in particular, in the construction of backbone networks is also dominated by foreign vendors. 

60% of Safe City Complex equipment nomenclature is still dominated by foreign vendors and there are still no domestic counterparts.

The amounts being spent on the Safe City Complex are staggering – $392,8 mln annualy by 2018. It is planned to establish Safe City Complex in all cities of Russia by 2020. One of the main point for Safe City Complex developing in 2016-2017 is the provision of the safety via Complex during forthcoming FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia.