Information security

The economic effect is an indicator of the effectiveness of digitalization

15 december 2023
Belarus today
Subject to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 381 "On digital development", assessment of digitalization of industries and regions will be implemented based on digital development indices, which will be publicly available in the information system "Showcase of Digital Projects". It will also contain information about ongoing pilot projects in the field of digit...

Belarusian experts spoke at IPA CIS international seminar on the protection of electoral sovereignty...

13 october 2023
Belarus today
At a large-scale event in St. Petersburg, representatives of central election commissions, parliaments, universities and analytical structures discuss the experience of countering foreign interference in elections and referendums. ...

View from Belarus: Tashkent Forum allowed comprehensive consideration of information security...

05 july 2021
DUNYO
In an interview with the Dunyo Information Agency Director of the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, Oleg Makarov commented on the outcomes of the CIS International Expert Forum on Information Security held in Tashkent on June 29: ...

Experts – on the achilles’ heel of digitalized elections and polls

31 july 2020
Belarus Segodnya
The advance of information technologies has made digitalization a reality that has deeply rooted in our daily lives. And electoral processes are no exception. Even IT platforms have already been announced, which will supposedly provide remote monitoring of elections and alternative counting of votes. Nikolay Sukhotsky and Svetlana Aleinikova, discuss the risks and challenges of such p...

Who and why needed to turn Telegram-channels into information weapons?

21 july 2020
Belarus Segodnya
It is a pity that young people are being used by curators as food for powder through anonymous Telegram-channels, while sitting in soft chairs somewhere abroad. Criminal cases are being initiated and violators are being detained. The closer the presidential elections are, the more actively destructive messengers are calling for rioting in the streets, replicating hoaxes, spewing threa...

Types of fake news, population protection against distorted facts, the role of state bodies and jour...

08 april 2020
Belarus Segodnya
Digital analysts have already attributed the spread of fakes and deepfakes to the most significant cyber threats this year. According to various estimates, even today up to 60 percent of the world Internet traffic is provided by artificial programs, including the spread of various rumours and fake news. At a February meeting with the heads of the leading state media, the President com...

Competent tuesday: specialists – on ways to ensure information security in the light of development ...

03 march 2020
Belarus Segodnya
An abundance of false or inaccurate information is becoming a worldwide evil. Providers are sounding the alarm: up to 60 percent of the world Internet traffic is provided by bots – artificial programs involved in the distribution of fakes. It is becoming more and more obvious that the situation requires a solution. But which one? This January, Minister of Information Aleksandr Karlyuk...

Know more of the new types of fakes on the internet. Attention: deep fakes!

22 january 2020
Belarus Segodnya
Do you still believe in what you see? Politicians getting drunk and swearing. Businesspersons confessing to have committed crimes, actors "gluing on" other people's faces and doing strange things. The Internet is full of videos of celebrities behaving in an unusual way. However, none of them is true. Deep fake is when a person's appearance and voice are changed in a real video using ...

Makarov: the impact of fake news on people will weaken

01 september 2019
Belarus Segodnya
Oleg Makarov, Director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research, believes that the impact of fake news and Telegram channels on people will weaken. He made this statement in an interview with the "Nedelia" show on СTV channel. ...

Makarov: documents on information security in Belarus and the CIS are interconnected, but they are c...

15 march 2019
Belarus.by
The documents on information security in Belarus and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are interconnected, but they are completely different. Oleg Makarov, Director of the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, told BELTA about this when commenting on the Strategy for Ensuring Information Security of the CIS Member States approved by the CIS Economic Council in Moscow ...