“Rostelecom” JCS and Autonomous Non-Governmental Organization “Coordination Center for LTD RU/РФ” concluded an agreement on cooperation for malicious programs and phishing expansion prevention in national domains .RU/.РФ. The cooperation is of research and technology character, in the frames of which the participants exchange analytical data on dangerous sites and criminals actions.
«We are glad to join the alliance of the leading Russian Internet companies which has proved its efficiency in the struggle with the threats to Internet users. Rostelecom as the largest Russian universal communications provider possesses unique experience and technologies which can significantly increase the Net threats determination accuracy” - says Alexey Basov, Vice-President and Head of Venture Direction of “Rostelecom” JCS. - “Thanks to the agreement with Coordination Center and cooperation with the partnership participants we can increase informational protection of both common citizens and Russian Internet in the whole”.
«Internet usage safety increase is one of the priorities of the Coordination Center. Nowadays when Runet has reached its maturity, “malicious” resources isolation and location problems in national domain zones must be solved quickly and effectively. Taking into account different specialization of our partners on research and technology cooperation we highly estimate Rostelecom’s potential and consider the contribution of the largest Russian communication provider to the common business will help significantly lower the threats level in the whole” - added Andrey Kolesnikov, CEO of the Coordination Center.
May we remind you that at the moment the agreement on research and technology cooperation has been signed by the following companies: Group-IB, the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ, Kaspersky Laboratory, Mail.ru, Rostelecom, RU-CERT, Technical Center of Internet and Yandex. The number of fixed “viruses” in domain space .RU and .РФ exceeded number of 690 thousand including second- and following levels domains.
