RP is not a whim, but a necessity

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The audience of users of digital risk protection services has grown many times over the past year. If five years ago it was limited to government organizations and the largest corporate structures, then in 2023, almost all companies whose work is carried out offline have become users of digital risk protection services.

BI.ZONE Strategy Director Evgeny armenia whatsapp resource Voloshin called the growing competence of attackers an alarming trend: if previously hacktivists limited themselves to participating in DDoS attacks, now it is not uncommon to conduct high-tech operations with penetration into the infrastructure of a particular company or institution to gain access to data or destroy the infrastructure using irreversible encryption.

Vladimir Dryukov, Director of the Center for Monitoring and Response to Cyberattacks of the Solar Group, drew attention to the need for cyber education of the broadest masses of participants in the electoral process - this is the only way to combat phishing and social engineering. Ilya Massukh, Director of the Competence Center for Import Substitution in the Sphere of Information and Communication Technologies, drew special attention to training not only ordinary voters, but also representatives of election commissions, the media and public organizations, including actions in the event of attacks and other emergency situations.

Vladimir Dryukov also noted that it is ordinary users and their potentially compromised devices that are the main "weak link" in the system, which can lead to unpredictable results. ROCIT expert Maxim Ksenzov emphasized that literally one proven case where voting did not go as one or another voter wanted would be enough to cause serious reputational damage to DEG.