A money plan appeared on the state platform
It is planned to allocate more than 6 billion rubles to a unified state platform for combating fraud on the Internet. from the budget, and all banks, telecom operators and digital platforms can enter it. The operator, according to Kommersant, will be the Ministry of Digital Development. Experts point out that the creation of such a system carries risks of concentration of critical information.
It is planned to allocate 6.1 billion rubles for the creation of TelecomCert, a common platform for information exchange between banks, telecom operators and digital platforms to combat fraud. from the federal budget until 2030, follows from the preliminary version of the federal project “Cybersecurity Infrastructure” (available to Kommersant), which will be included in the national project “Data Economy” (by order of the President of the Russian Federation, it should start in 2025).
It follows from the document that the platform should be created in 2025 to “automate the interaction of authorized bodies and organizations, including for monitoring personal data leaks.” By 2030, they plan to connect all financial organizations, telecom operators and digital platforms to TelecomCert. These may include owners of social networks, marketplaces and mobile application developers (see Kommersant on August 21). Now in the Russian Federation there are already a number of government platforms to combat fraud: GosSOPKA (FSB), Antifraud (Roskomnadzor), Anti-Phishing (Ministry of Digital Development) and FinCERT (Central Bank).
The system assumes the presence of a “single window” for receiving complaints from citizens and companies about fraud. The authors of the document suggest that the system will reduce the blocking time of phishing and fraudulent resources from eight to four hours by 2030.
The office of the relevant Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko told Kommersant that the parameters of the federal project are still being worked out, “and before its approval it is premature to talk about the plans it envisages.” The Ministry of Digital Development confirmed to Kommersant that the creation of a unified anti-fraud platform is planned, but its parameters are subject to interdepartmental approval.
A Kommersant source on the telecom market explains that the system operator will be the Ministry of Digital Development, but the system executor has not yet been determined. A Kommersant source familiar with the progress of the national project adds that the initiative has been discussed since 2018, but has not yet been implemented “due to clashes of interests of telecom operators, banks and government agencies.”
Telecom operators and banks interviewed by Kommersant support the project. VimpelCom believes that creating “such a platform is necessary taking into account all existing developments and products.” MegaFon says that the Ministry of Digital Development is now engaged in “developing its concept.” t2 (formerly Tele2) adds that the “system architecture project” was not provided to the operators. T-Bank (formerly Tinkoff Bank) believes that the rapid exchange of information between market participants and law enforcement agencies “will help more effectively prevent fraud on all fronts.” Yandex and Sber did not respond to the request; VK and MTS declined to comment.
It is necessary for market participants to begin sharing in real time “at least minimal information about the facts and methods of fraud,” says Mikhail Savelyev, director of the cybersecurity methodology department at Rostelecom. This, in his opinion, will enrich the threat response models of all exchange participants.
The platform requires serious protection in order to mitigate all sorts of cybersecurity risks, notes Alexander Khonin, head of the consulting and audit department at Angara Security. “Creating such a system carries the risk of concentrating critical information in one place. This can make the platform a target for cyber attacks,” adds Pavel Kovalenko, director of the cyber fraud counteraction center at Informzashchita.
