CSTO fights crime in information environment - Bordyuzha
YEKATERINBURG. April 22 (Interfax) - Information attacks are akin to military operations, which makes information security a top priority of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha said.
"I can say information confrontations and information security are becoming a priority of the CSTO," he told reporters in Yekaterinburg on Tuesday.
The world has seen plenty of examples in which countries were destabilized without the use of force, with information technologies only, and "in some places information technologies led to a regime change, and a violent one," the CSTO secretary general said.
"As I understand, the information environment is a field of confrontations; I would not call it a war. Although U.S. delegates have told many information security conferences that a war has been declared on the information space," Bordyuzha said.
With this in mind, the CSTO is stepping up information security, he continued.
"We have appropriate interstate coordination mechanisms. We are fighting crime in the information environment. These operations have impressive results. We expose large quantities of websites, which are either closed down in a legal procedure or their owners are subject to relevant work," Bordyuzha said.
