BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 7
By Sadraddin Aghjayev - Trend:
The project of the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers on exemption of entrepreneurs and legal entities from taxes on profit and income is generally aimed at promoting the production of innovative products and services, Vusala Ahmadova, expert on economic and legal issues, told Trend.
"The production of high value-added goods is the most important factor in eliminating the foreign trade deficit," Ahmadova added.
The most effective ways to create the added value are new design, research and development, rebranding, use of information technologies, specialization in the production of goods.
Moreover, the Azerbaijani AzScienceNet science computer network plans to join the pan-European project of the "GN4-3" e-scientific and educational network.
According to the Institute of Information Technologies of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), the main goal is to provide users with access to research infrastructure and e-resources of Europe with equal, high-performance network access.
Moreover, on the basis of an interview with Trend with heads of IT companies, it became known that the cyberspace of Azerbaijan is generally reliable.
So, director of Educators.Pro - IT Trainings & Solutions Farhad Karimov said that the cyber security of Azerbaijan can be considered reliable.
"Our country has not undergone any major hacker attacks, huge number of successful hacker threats has not been revealed either," Karimov stressed.
"All cyber threats aimed at our country both during the pandemic and during the second Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh War were repelled in most cases," director of Educators.Pro - IT Trainings & Solutions said.
Moreover, Karimov said that a big breakthrough in the development of digital technologies occurred in Azerbaijan in 2020.
"Integration of the business with any other services besides IT infrastructure would be a loss for entrepreneurship in this period and further periods," director of Educators.Pro - IT Trainings & Solutions said.
"However, the Azerbaijani business sectors have successfully entered the way they are moving along today," Karimov said.
"During the period of the pandemic in Azerbaijan, as well as in a number of other countries, a number of new technical solutions that have contributed to both doing business and adapting ideas within the work in a remote mode have appeared," Karimov said.
The director of Educators.Pro - IT Trainings & Solutions stressed that the development of technical and digital solutions in Azerbaijan continues.
An excellent opinion in the field of cybersecurity was the statement of director of Cybero Orhan Sadili.
Sadili stressed that human resources are the main solutions to cybersecurity security problems.
"Software is not always able to detect vulnerability, it either does not cope with such vulnerabilities or the software has been filled with false positive and false negative data," Sadili added. "For this reason, we do not recommend conducting security control or audit when using any technical solution, the approach must be complex."
"The level of protection of the Azerbaijani information space from cyber threats is very diverse," director of Cybero added.
"There is a big need to raise awareness in this sphere to raise the level of vigilance of our citizens," Sadili added. "In this sphere, it is possible to highlight various areas, both very dangerous and very highly protected, which differ from each other by sector. In general, the information systems are protected more completely than the data of people themselves."
Despite the date of Netcraft analytical firm, the number of phishing attacks have recently increased by more than 50 percent compared to the previous month, the phishing attack that was effective for fraudsters is 0.76 percent of the total number of attacks on the national domains registered on the Azerbaijani national internet domain-resources.
However, according to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) under the Special Communication and Information Security State Agency of the Azerbaijani Special State Security Service, the number of requests related to computer security in Azerbaijan in 2021 was 398, almost 95 percent of which were considered and met.
One of the brightest events of the outgoing week was the breakthrough of Twitter social network in the Azerbaijani network.
So, according to Global Stats, Twitter, for the first time in the past five years, with 25.17 percent in popularity, ranked first in the Azerbaijani social media market.
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