Import substitution has long been a national priority. In the context of information security, it primarily means ensuring the controllability, reliability, and independence of software, hardware, and information-protection tools.
Government organization No. 1
Data Center Construction and Certification
Tasks 1. Building an effective public-administration system based on the use of information and telecommunications technologies 2. Building a regional information and communications infrastructure 3. Ensuring interaction with federal state information systems 4. Implementing and developing information systems that support operations 5. Ensuring comprehensive management of the implementation of information and communications technologies
Conditions The need to create a data center to host key services and to protect information in the data center.
Question • Design of the data center and its internal infrastructure for hosting the required services • Selection and configuration of equipment, design of a protection system, and preparation of the project in accordance with GOST
Result An audit was conducted, based on which a “roadmap” for building the data center was developed. The roadmap described the main steps and their sequence for creating the data center, and technical solutions were selected. Commissioning works were then completed. The next step was the design of the information-security assurance subsystem and its commissioning — acceptance. Certification is planned.
Government organization No. 2
Conditions The founders’ requirement to install a domestic UserGate firewall at the network perimeter.
Question 1. Review of the client’s current network infrastructure. Identification of internal services that require external access 2. Development and approval of a new network diagram with the client 3. Performance of commissioning works according to the previously approved diagram, ensuring access to the required services, and configuration of related equipment (switches) 4. Assessment of the existing electrical network’s capacity for connecting the equipment in accordance with the requirements
Solution 1. Commissioning of the devices in accordance with the diagram approved by the client 2. Inspection of the electrical network of the premises intended to host the implemented equipment
Result • Commissioning works were completed. • Logical and physical network diagrams were prepared for the commissioned equipment. • Based on the commissioning results, equipment power-supply diagrams were prepared.