BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 14. Azerbaijan's Special Communication and Information Security State Service (Computer Emergency Response Center - CERT), has launched the share.gov.az platform for government agencies, Trend reports via the service.
According to the service, the platform is aimed at strengthening the information security of state institutions and eliminating dependence on foreign media.
"This platform is a reliable alternative to "wetransfer", "dropbox", "boxca" and so on. Users will be able to store and transfer data in the cloud using the share.gov.az service. Files can be stored on this platform for up to 15 days after which they are deleted," CERT said in a statement.
It was also noted that only government agencies connected to the AzStateNet network have the ability to upload files to the mentioned platform, while any user can download the uploaded files.
The number of blocked computer threats in the Azerbaijani AzStateNet network reached 356,232 in 2022 (an increase of 2.3 times). The number of threats blocked based on URLs amounted to 96,085, the centralized anti-virus system (CAS) - 37,287, and 222,860 were blocked by the so-called sandbox system (a specially isolated environment for the safe execution of computer programs).
AzStateNet (Azerbaijan State Network) is a set of geographically distributed networks and access servers belonging to organizations with the status of state authority.