According to Positive Technologies, 90% of the enterprises it surveyed were hacked in 2017, with the average period of presence of attackers in the attacked infrastructure being about three years. Based on these disappointing statistics, the company's Deputy General Director for Business Development Boris Simis called for an end to the practice of concealing information security incidents: exchanging data about them in the professional environment increases the efficiency of decision-making on identifying incidents and mitigating their consequences. He recommends more active use of the already formed infrastructure in the form of industry emergency response centers (CERT) and the State System for Detection, Prevention, and new zealand whatsapp data of Consequences of Computer Attacks (GosSOPKA), vulnerability databases maintained by FSTEC, and the vulnerability management methods developed by this service.
Mr. Simis noted that in a number of large Russian companies (spending at least 1 billion rubles per year on information security and accounting for 10-15% of the national information security market), information security tasks are already being considered not only from the standpoint of possible damage, but also as a mandatory attribute of business culture in general in the context of the digital economy.
The Russian information security market grew by about 15% in 2017, according to some experts. However, experts have no consensus on the forecast for this year. Some of them expect the growth rate to continue, while others attribute last year's growth to an exceptional situation caused by the upcoming presidential elections and the World Cup, which triggered a temporary increase in the purchase of information security products.
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, IT and Communications Leonid Levin expressed the opinion that the current year will be a breakthrough in the implementation of the program for the development of the digital economy in the country adopted by the government in 2017. Last year, under the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, the Council for Legislative Support of the Digital Economy was created (which includes all the largest ICT companies in the country), without whose approval no law concerning regulation in the field of ICT is now adopted.