Lieutenant General of the Internal Service Sergey LYASHENKO, Head of the Department of Information Technologies, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia / Photo: ormvd.ru
To the questions of the publication “PoliceRussia" answers Lieutenant General of the Internal Service Sergey Lyashchenko, Head of the Department of Information Technologies, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
– Sergey Nikolaevich, in the modern world there is a huge number of cyber threats. What measures are taken by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to protect their information resources?
– Planned and systematic work is being carried out to improve the information security subsystem of the Unified System for Information and Analytical Support for the Activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (ISOD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia). But it should be emphasized that the fight against threats in the field of information and telecommunication technologies is an area in which you cannot stop, otherwise you will inevitably lose. Therefore, regular exchange of experience and improvement is very important.
Representatives of the Ministry take part in various forums and conferences dedicated to information security. On an ongoing basis, innovative solutions in the field of information security are being tested, some of which we are promptly implementing. An important role in the overall fight against information threats is played by the timely replacement of foreign-made technological equipment with domestic ones.
– In the spring of this year, the world was shocked by an unprecedented cyberattack. Many computers of large commercial organizations, government agencies and ordinary people have been infected with a computer virus. The information systems of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia were also attacked. How successful was it?
- Indeed, the spread of a computer virus under the name WannaCry has received a great international and public outcry. At the same time, the scale of the threat to the department's systems was insignificant. First of all, this is due to the use of domestically produced computer equipment, as well as Unix and similar operating systems. Thus, infection of the server capacities of critical systems that store and process data turned out to be impossible in principle.
Another thing is employees' workstations operating under the Windows operating system. Here the threat was greater.
A significant role was played by the fact that updating anti-virus software on a large number of computers always occurs with some time delay. Therefore, the updates that could be detected were not received everywhere and not immediately.
But it can be said with certainty that there was no leakage of information from the data banks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The principle of the "work" of the virus is based on the encryption of user files of certain formats and the subsequent demand for a ransom for their decryption. At the same time, the virus continues to search for and further infect vulnerable computers on the local network. The information itself from infected machines is not transmitted to attackers.
- What did the specialists of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs do to prevent the attack?
“In the event of such situations, we have developed appropriate instructions. Employees of the division responsible for protecting information systems were able to timely determine the mechanism for spreading malicious code and take the necessary measures to localize it. Thanks to centralized resource management and a protection system, infected computers were promptly disconnected from the department's computer network. Further, their “treatment” was carried out in the normal mode. The latest versions of anti-virus databases and Microsoft updates were prepared, tested and installed to close the vulnerability exploited by the WannaCry virus. By defending against the latter, we secured ourselves against all viruses that use this type of vulnerability, for example, from the so-called "Petya" virus.
Thus, the virus did not affect the activities of the units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to final estimates, less than 1 percent of the department's computer equipment fleet was affected. Only user devices were infected. Server hardware, data storage systems, as well as other critical components of the ISOD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, operating under the operating systems of the Unix and Elbrus family, were not affected by this malicious content.
- All of the above once again confirms that the field of information security requires highly qualified specialists. Where are they prepared?
- The main sources of personnel for us are the Voronezh Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Academy of the FSO of Russia. Not so long ago, the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia named after V. Ya. Kikot joined this work. These universities train specialists in information security under the program "Information Security of Telecommunication Systems".
Naturally, graduates of educational organizations do not immediately get into the divisions of the central office. A young employee must gain practical experience - both in the specialty and in the office. Although we try to track the studies, starting from the first courses, and the further professional activities of the most promising ones.
Such work is carried out under the very close attention of representatives of interested departments of the department. After all, it is young specialists who, after some time, will have to develop the policy of one of the largest and most advanced law enforcement agencies in the country, including the policy of its information security.
– This area requires constant attention and an integrated approach. First of all, it is necessary to maintain the competence and awareness of employees about the requirements for information protection. To do this, at least once every six months, appropriate thematic classes should be held with personnel as part of service training. Both employees of the relevant departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and invited civilian experts can act as lecturers.
Equally important is the timely and accurate implementation of the recommendations and instructions developed in our Department. This will avoid serious trouble. Only the constant work of security administrators to protect workstations and other resources of the unit will help to avoid unpleasant incidents and provide a decent level of information protection for the department as a whole.
MOSCOW, magazine of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation "Police of Russia"
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Balaev Alexander Anatolyevich was born on February 3, 1964 in Moscow. He has two higher educations in the specialties "electric transport" and "jurisprudence". From 1982 to 1994, he worked in various positions at the Institute of Atomic Energy named after I.V. Kurchatov. Service in the ranks of the Soviet army from 1984 to 1986. In 1994, he began serving in the internal affairs bodies as a detective. From 1994 to 2018, Alexander Anatolyevich served in various positions from a detective to the first deputy head of the BSTM of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Since March 2018, he has been appointed First Deputy Head of FKU NPO STiS of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Since October 2018, he has been acting head of the Department of Information Technology, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 44 of February 8, 2019, Major General of the Internal Service Aleksandr Anatolyevich Balaev was appointed Head of the Department of Information Technologies, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Balaev Alexander Anatolyevich was awarded state awards: the Order of Honor, the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd degree, the medal "For Distinction in the Protection of Public Order", departmental medals. |
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The Department of Information Technologies, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is an independent subdivision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, which ensures and carries out, within its competence, the functions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in developing and implementing state policy, regulatory legal regulation in the field of improving information and telecommunications technologies, automated information systems , systems and means of communication, radio and radio control, ensuring the electromagnetic compatibility of radio-electronic means, countering technical intelligence, technical (including cryptographic) information protection, electronic warfare, the use of electronic signatures, the formation and maintenance of information resources, interdepartmental information interaction, implementation state and departmental programs in the field of informatization, navigation and monitoring systems of internal affairs bodies, organizations, etc. units created to carry out the tasks and exercise the powers assigned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
The structure of the Department includes the Department of Information Technologies and Automation, the Department of Communications, the Department of Economic Planning and Support of State Orders, the Department of Information Security, the Department for the Development of External Electronic Interaction and Monitoring the Quality of Public Services, the Department of Legal Support, the Department of Personnel and Civil Service, the Department office work and regime, as well as the Department of analysis, planning, control and organizational and methodological support.
08/29/2018, Wed, 20:15, Moscow time , Text: Denis Voeikov
Vladimir Putin, as part of a large-scale personnel reshuffle in law enforcement agencies, fired the head of the Department of IT, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sergei Lyashenko.
The position of the head of the department of IT, communications and information protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has become vacant. Formerly Lieutenant General of the Internal Service Sergei Lyashenko released from it by decree of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
Lyashenko has worked in this position since April 2015, having taken over the reins from Alexandra Makhonova, who has been an IT officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs since November 2012, and previously headed the Mostelecom operator and the Electronic Moscow program.
The Department of IT, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was created in January 2011 - as part of the reform of the ministry. Its first leader was Mikhail Tyurkin, who previously held the position of First Deputy Director of the Federal Migration Service.
Released from office, Sergei Lyashenko was on the presidential list for dismissal, consisting of 20 high-ranking employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Investigative Committee, the Federal Penitentiary Service and regional prosecutor's offices. All of them became defendants in the same decree of Vladimir Putin dated August 28, 2018.
The same document approved new appointments to important positions in law enforcement agencies, but no successor to Lyashenko was mentioned in the decree.
Recall, at the end of February 2018, CNews, that the Ministry of Internal Affairs demands from the former head of its division of NPO Special Equipment and Communications Andrey Nechaev payment of 1.4 billion rubles. for shortcomings in the work of the Unified System of Information and Analytical Support for Activities (ISOD), the implementation of which he led. The specified 1.4 billion rubles. - this is the amount of the state contract for the creation of the ISOD, which Nechaev concluded with the contractor on behalf of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Nechaev was detained in October 2017, after FSB department “M” became interested in the circumstances of his work on the ISOD.
It is believed that it was the arrest of Nechaev that led to the voluntary resignation of Alexander Makhonov, motivated in the Ministry of Internal Affairs by the fact that Makhonov was personally responsible for Nechaev, who was subordinate to him. Despite this, having dismissed the official from his post in mid-February 2015, Vladimir Putin, by the same decree of his deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which in fact became a promotion for Makhonov.
Sergei Lyashenko was born on October 23, 1967 in Poltava, Ukraine. In 1989 he graduated from the Poltava Higher Military Command School of Communications, in 1998 - from the Military Academy of Communications. S. M. Budyonny in St. Petersburg, in 2005 - the All-Russian State Tax Academy of the Ministry of Finance in Moscow.
Sergey Lyashenko released from a post of the Chief information officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
In the period from 1989 to 2003, he served in various leadership positions in the Russian Armed Forces. Lyashenko began his service in the internal affairs bodies as the chief specialist of the communications and automation department of the Logistics Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Awarded with medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I and II degrees, as well as various departmental awards.
The Department of IT, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, according to the agency, is an independent subdivision of the Ministry, whose responsibilities include legal regulation in the field of improving information and telecommunications technologies, automated information systems, systems and means of communication, radio and radio engineering control, ensuring electromagnetic compatibility of electronic means, counteraction to technical intelligence, technical (including cryptographic) protection of information, electronic warfare, the use of electronic signatures, the formation and maintenance of information resources, interdepartmental information interaction, the implementation of state and departmental programs in the field of informatization, navigation and monitoring systems of the department.
Lyashenko Sergey NikolaevichIn 1989 he graduated from the Poltava Higher Military Command School of Communications, in 1998 - the Military Academy of Communications named after Marshal of the Soviet Union S.M. Budyonny, in 2005 - the All-Russian State Tax Academy of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
In the period from 1989 to 2003, he served in various senior positions in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
He began his service in the internal affairs bodies as the chief specialist of the Communications and Automation Department of the Logistics Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has been working in the Department of Information Technologies, Communications and Information Protection since its inception. He served as deputy head of the department.
In April 2015, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed head of the Department of Information Technology, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The appointment of Sergei Lyashenko to this position was preceded by the promotion of the previous head of the department - Alexander Makhonov, who took the post of Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In September 2018, the position of Head of the Department of IT, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs became vacant. Lieutenant-General of the Internal Service Sergey Lyashenko, who previously occupied her, was released from her by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Released from office, Sergei Lyashenko was on the presidential list for dismissal, consisting of 20 high-ranking employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Investigative Committee, the Federal Penitentiary Service and regional prosecutor's offices. All of them became defendants in the same decree of Vladimir Putin dated August 28, 2018. The same document approved new appointments to important positions in law enforcement agencies, but no successor to Lyashenko was mentioned in the decree.
The management of FKU NPO STiS, which is part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, "lost" 2 billion rubles. at Russian Credit Bank. This money could be "sawed". It is possible that the head of the Department of Information Technologies, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lyashenko may be involved in this scandal. This was reported to the correspondent of The Moscow Post in law enforcement agencies.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs "lost" two billion
A loud scandal occurred in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, after it turned out that the Scientific and Production Association of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “Special Equipment and Communications” (FKU NPO STiS) controlled by this department “lost” 2.1 billion rubles in the accounts of Rossiyskiy Kredit Bank , which was controlled by Anatoly Motylev.
It is very interesting that private companies are also involved in this case. After all, these "lost" 2 billion rubles. were placed in Rossiyskiy Kredit as a bank guarantee to the winner of a closed state contract for the creation of IT products - ZAO SRT Service.
Now ZAO SRT Service is trying to return this money through the courts, as well as terminate the contracts concluded in April 2015 with Rossiyskiy Kredit in order to later transfer them to FKU NPO STiS, which placed the state order.
Let us pay special attention to the fact that the money was placed in Russian Credit in April 2015, when it was already absolutely clear to experts that this bank would not last long. On July 24, 2015, the Central Bank revoked the license from Rossiyskiy Kredit, and Anatoly Motylev fled to London.
Classic "cut"?
Experts have already suspected in this strange placement of 2.1 billion rubles in a potential "bankrupt bank" an ordinary "cutting" scheme.
Chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee (NAC) Kirill Kabanov believes that the circumstances of placing such a large amount in a non-state bank just before its bankruptcy require careful verification.
“It is necessary that the investigation team check the circumstances of such placement for corruption conspiracy between officials and the bank's management. In general, all this looks like a fairly common scheme for withdrawing funds, ”Kabanov said.
Asset withdrawal mechanism
Experts believe that the management of FKU NPO STiS could have deliberately placed the money in Rossiyskiy Kredit, being well aware of the likelihood of the imminent deprivation of the license of this bank.
Then most of the 2.1 billion rubles could be “kicked back” from Motylev to the top managers of FKU NPO STiS. The banker himself could also keep a decent amount for himself.
Of course, so far the version of the intentional withdrawal of 2.1 billion rubles from FKU NPO STiS is only a guess of experts, but it seems very convincing.
Main figurant
Recall that FKU NPO STiS is a special scientific enterprise within the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which develops protective equipment, devices and software for the needs of internal affairs bodies and other law enforcement agencies throughout Russia.
The enterprise has an extensive network of branches in several regions of the country. STiS consists of four large divisions: the Center for the Organization of Scientific and Technical Activities, the Educational and Methodological Center, the Logistics Center and the Research Institute of Special Equipment.
Mikhail Muganov
It is known that since June 2013, Mikhail Muganov has been the head of NPO STiS of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. It seems that it was with his "permission" that these 2.1 billion rubles were "pumped" into Russian Credit.
General Lyashenko is also in business?
Experts suggest that at the level of the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, this deal could be supervised by the head of the Department of Information Technologies, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Major General of the Internal Service Sergey Lyashenko, who previously worked in the Communications and Automation Department of the Logistics Service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
By the way, Lyashenko was appointed head of the information department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs by decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated April 6, 2015 No. 174. It turns out that "by a strange coincidence" the placement of 2.1 billion rubles in "Russian Credit" occurred immediately after the appointment of General Lyashenko.
Taking into account the fact that Sergey Lyashenko has been working in the Department of Information Technologies, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation since its inception, it is highly doubtful that he was not aware of the affairs of the management of FKU NPO STiS.
Moreover, since April 2015, the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation began to position NPO STiS as its own Skolkovo. In any case, the media wrote that the Ministry of Internal Affairs decided to create a scientific cluster on the basis of NPO STiS.
"Laundering office"?
By the way, the previous leadership of NPO STiS also "lit up" in corruption scandals. After all, on December 4, 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin fired Alexander Kvitko, head of the FKU NPO STiS of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, precisely after another financial scandal.
Alexander Kvitko
Earlier, the GUSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reported violations in the spending of federal budget funds for the implementation of development work for the needs of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation.
According to rumors, the representatives of the GUSB had a suspicion that NPO STiS was simply "sawed" from budget money.
The role of Deputy Minister of Justice Gerasimov?
By the way, following Kvitko, the head of the Department of Information Technologies, Communications and Information Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mikhail Tyurkin, also lost his post. On the eve of Tyurkin's resignation, Alexander Zhdankov, auditor of the Accounts Chamber, spoke in the State Duma, who checked the informatization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
