On February 9, 2016 Moscow hosted an annual meeting of the Cyber Security Forum. The meeting was held in Digital October under the auspices of the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) and the Regional Public Center of Internet-technologies (ROCIT) and support from the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce and the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce (CCIFR). The event was timed to Safer Internet Day and Safe Runet Week. The forum was attended by representatives of government agencies and businesses, as well as Russian and foreign experts.
On February 9, 2016 Moscow hosted an annual meeting of the Cyber Security Forum. The meeting was held in Digital October under the auspices of the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) and the Regional Public Center of Internet-technologies (ROCIT) and support from the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce and the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce (CCIFR). The event was timed to Safer Internet Day and Safe Runet Week. The forum was attended by representatives of government agencies and businesses, as well as Russian and foreign experts.
Deputies of the State Duma, members of the RF Federation Council, representatives of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor), Rostelecom, ICANN and specialized companies, including Kaspersky Lab, Rambler, Microsoft, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and others, were among the main speakers at the Forum. The meeting was attended by RIAC Program Coordinator Maria Gurova.
Participants’ discussions at thematic sections covered the issues of critical infrastructure cybersecurity in the current setting, of the first results of the law on the right to oblivion in the network, of protecting personal data on the Internet, of increasing the level of digital literacy among pupils and students, as well as of Russia’s “digital sovereignty.”
RIAC marked Safer Internet Day by publishing an expert article by Elena Zinovieva on transatlantic cooperation in the field of cybersecurity.
