BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug. 17
By Nargiz Ismayilova - Trend:
The Electronic Security Service (ESS) under the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan has established cooperation with centers for combating cyber incidents of a number of countries, the service told Trend.
Having established links with international communities and structures operating in this area, the Electronic Security Service became a full member of such the influential global organizations in the field of cybersecurity as Trusted Introducer, Anti-Phishing Working Group, FIRST, CAMP, and also established cooperation with the centers for combating cyber incidents of a number of countries, the service said.
“In order to study and apply international experience in the field of cybersecurity in Azerbaijan, the Electronic Security Service conducts regular consultations with the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of Turkey, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Romania, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Bulgaria and Belarus on possible measures to eliminate cyber threats,” the service noted.
“In addition, various services of Shadowserver and Microsoft companies, as well as Anti-Phishing Working Group, FIRST, Team Cymru, OpenPhish Team and Trusted Introducer international organizations, were introduced in our country. Collaboration with Facebook, Youtube, Apple and Google expanded to prevent cybersecurity incidents,” said the service.
In September 2019, a meeting was held on the Skype-call platform with members of the EU4Digital working group on Azerbaijan within the framework of Network Trust & Security. The meeting was held as part of the Harmonization of the Digital Markets (HDM) initiative of the ‘Economic Integration and Convergence with EU Policies’ platform of the EU’s Eastern Partnership program.
The purpose of the meeting was the assessment of the level of cybersecurity of the country for the allocation of grants within the program to support the digital economy and society in the Eastern Partnership countries next year. During the meeting, questions regarding the cybersecurity situation in Azerbaijan were answered, and current problems and needs were identified.
On November 19, 2019, a seminar was held within the first stage of the project prepared by the Transnational Threats Department of the OSCE Secretariat for the development of cooperation between the relevant state structures of Azerbaijan in the field of combating cybercrime and international service providers such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Paypal and others. At the seminar, which was attended by international service providers, information was shared on their experience of cooperation with law enforcement agencies in the fight against cybercrime.
Since June 2019, under the organization of the Council of Europe, a project called ‘Cyber training in the Eastern Partnership region of the EU – CyberEast’, which will last 36 months, has begun. The aim of the project is to strengthen cooperation between the structures involved in the fight against cybercrime, electronic evidence, internet governance and criminal justice, accelerate legal reforms in accordance with the Budapest Convention, as well as provide relevant training in the field of cybercrime and electronic evidence for experts working in law enforcement agencies, prosecutor's office, justice.
Taking into account the activities of the Electronic Security Service, in order to improve the level of training and study international experience as part of the TAIEX program, it was proposed to conduct seminars in subsequent years on the mechanisms and problems of the practical application of legislation, audit and certification, forms of control legislation and mechanisms for their application, methods of education in the field of personal data, studying international experience in the field of ensuring the protection of personal data.
“Under the ESS' direct appeal to the Facebook team, the ‘Ghosty’ application, which caused great concern among Instagram users in our country and abroad, and violated user privacy rights and Instagram privacy rules, was removed from the Google Play Store and App Store,” said the message.
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