
The widespread use of foreign information technologies, software and telecommunications equipment creates preconditions for information leakage, reduces the level of information security, up to the threat of stopping technological processes and remotely blocking the infrastructure of public authorities,
Patrushev said at a retreat in Ryazan on issues of national security in the Central Federal District.According to him, “large-scale computer attacks in May-June of 2017, with the goal of disrupting the functioning of the information resources of the Russian Federation and many countries of the world, clearly demonstrated the destabilizing potential of such malicious software.”