State Duma deputy offers “civil defense plan for the Internet” – RBC

RBC 04.09.2014, Moscow 04:30:03 A member of the State Duma Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption Ilya Kostunov prepared appeals to the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov and Minister for Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov. MPs asked to consider creating instructions, software and technical solutions to individuals and private companies that in the case of “deliberate destructive impact” on the Russian segment of the Internet will provide its stand-alone operation, write “Izvestia».

As the Kostunov, international non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN is in the jurisdiction of the United States. “Disconnecting the Internet can cause significant economic damage and cause social and political destabilization. Considering that in addressing the Internet controlled by the United States meets ICANN, off the Internet is indeed possible, “- he says.

In his view, the state should have a” plan of civil defense when disconnecting the Internet. ” “In other countries, such as Belarus or China, the internal network can operate independently from ICANN. Every citizen of our country, every enterprise must be the flash drive with the program that if you disable the Internet can be set up, an alternative system of addressing and at least provide the work of the Russian segment of the Internet, “- said Kostunov. He also offers to create software that can restore access to at least the internal Russian segment of the Internet.

In late April of this year, a member of the Federation Council Maxim Kavdzharadze proposed the creation of an internal internet, closed to the European Union and the United States . Call the network, he suggested, “Cheburashka”. “We need to think about in order to create their own internal Russian information system to escape from under the wing USA, otherwise they will continue to leak information,” – he said, speaking in the Federation Council.

In late July, the Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior and the FSB conducted exercises on the protection of the Russian segment of the Internet from the target of threats. “Ministry of Communications of Russia conducted exercises to develop measures to prevent violations of the” Internet “in Russia as a result of targeted actions. The exercise was attended by leaders and experts responsible units of the Defense Ministry, the FSB, the Federal Security Service, Interior Ministry, the specialists of JSC “Rostelecom”, the Coordination Center for TLD “Internet”, Technical Center «Internet» (MSK-IX) », – stated in informed the Ministry of Communications.

«The exercise was carried out an overall assessment of the state of security and stability of the national segment of the network, the degree of criticality of its connectivity with the global infrastructure, estimated potential vulnerabilities, establishing the willingness to work together industry organizations, service providers and situational centers of the federal bodies of executive power in the case of a negative impact focus, “- noted in the Ministry of Communications.

The report also said that the results of the exercise will develop comprehensive measures of legal , organizational and technical measures aimed at improving the protection of IP-addresses and increase its stability. Will also be developed a specific list of measures to contain and reduce all types of threats.