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Azerbaijan Business Center
Oct 5 2012
Azerbaijan raises question of media's technical readiness for info war
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The Multimedia center has come forward with
proposals to organize information security of private agencies of
Azerbaijan.
Center's head Osman Gunduz says that over the past six months,
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed 5 or 6 documents to ensure
the information nsecurity of the country.
"The Ministry of Communications & IT is entrusted to take care of
information security of private enterprises through education and
provision with manuals. The MCIT e-security center will deal with
information security. We believe that the center will analyze
political situation with our country's evil fruit of our malicious
neighbors (it is meant Armenia which has occupied 20% of Azerbaijan's
territory and expelled 1 million people from their homes; abc.az's
note), warn of possible cyber attacks and determine possible
directions from which we can expect attacks. It is also necessary to
identify the sources of funding of the center, as the adopted
documents do not contain the source of its funding. Perhaps it will be
the Ministry, but it is necessary to specify that,' he said.
Gunduz is of the opinion that publication of several documents on
information security by the head of state for a short period testifies
that the country is preparing for serious info war, in which most, if
not the main role will be assigned to the mass media.
"The recent cyber attacks dated deliberately by state structures of
Armenia with the decision on pardon Ramil Safarov showed that
web-resources of the media became a major target for hackers. It means
that the IT-infrastructure of country's information websites must be
improved, and it is needed to create IT-departments in each agency and
state structure, where at least 3-4 professional IT-specialists will
work. Besides, one should increase the budget provided for the
purpose. Otherwise, Azerbaijan, like Georgia during the short war with
Russia, may be left without the media during a possible war, and
information about events in the country may remain closed for the
entire world. All local news web-resources need to have a mirrored
version of their sites on the servers of the National Data Center,
operating under company Delta Telecom. It is desirable to create as
more mirror versions as possible so it would be possible to use the
alternative one in case of breaking the main web-resource. Creation of
a mirrored version of the information resource will ensure its
security by 50%," he emphasized.
Oct 5 2012
Azerbaijan raises question of media's technical readiness for info war
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The Multimedia center has come forward with
proposals to organize information security of private agencies of
Azerbaijan.
Center's head Osman Gunduz says that over the past six months,
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed 5 or 6 documents to ensure
the information nsecurity of the country.
"The Ministry of Communications & IT is entrusted to take care of
information security of private enterprises through education and
provision with manuals. The MCIT e-security center will deal with
information security. We believe that the center will analyze
political situation with our country's evil fruit of our malicious
neighbors (it is meant Armenia which has occupied 20% of Azerbaijan's
territory and expelled 1 million people from their homes; abc.az's
note), warn of possible cyber attacks and determine possible
directions from which we can expect attacks. It is also necessary to
identify the sources of funding of the center, as the adopted
documents do not contain the source of its funding. Perhaps it will be
the Ministry, but it is necessary to specify that,' he said.
Gunduz is of the opinion that publication of several documents on
information security by the head of state for a short period testifies
that the country is preparing for serious info war, in which most, if
not the main role will be assigned to the mass media.
"The recent cyber attacks dated deliberately by state structures of
Armenia with the decision on pardon Ramil Safarov showed that
web-resources of the media became a major target for hackers. It means
that the IT-infrastructure of country's information websites must be
improved, and it is needed to create IT-departments in each agency and
state structure, where at least 3-4 professional IT-specialists will
work. Besides, one should increase the budget provided for the
purpose. Otherwise, Azerbaijan, like Georgia during the short war with
Russia, may be left without the media during a possible war, and
information about events in the country may remain closed for the
entire world. All local news web-resources need to have a mirrored
version of their sites on the servers of the National Data Center,
operating under company Delta Telecom. It is desirable to create as
more mirror versions as possible so it would be possible to use the
alternative one in case of breaking the main web-resource. Creation of
a mirrored version of the information resource will ensure its
security by 50%," he emphasized.