Uzbek Central Bank receives additional cybersecurity functions

TASHKENT. June 21 (Interfax) - The Senate, the upper house of the Uzbek parliament, approved amendments to a number of legislative acts at its plenary session on Friday, giving additional cybersecurity functions to the country's Central Bank.

"This legislation vests the Central Bank with additional powers to detect threats to security and cybersecurity coming from credit and payment organizations, payment system operators, forex exchanges and credit bureaus and to take measures to prevent them," the Senate's press service said.

The law lists violations of legal requirements for information security and cybersecurity within bank information systems among serious breaches.

Other goals set by the law include ensuring the information security and cybersecurity of banks' information systems and resources and protecting information subject to bank secrecy.

"Senators believe that the adoption of this law will help enhance information security in operations of credit organizations and non-bank credit institutions and within the electronic government systems, and will also help prevent offenses committed with the use of information and communication technologies," it said.