A new cyber defense system for citizens will be introduced in the Russian Federation

By the end of 2025, Rostelecom, represented by its member Solar Group, will enter the cybersecurity market for individuals for the first time. Vladimir Bengin, the company's Director of Product Development, told Izvestia about this at the Digital Industry of Industrial Russia (CIPR) forum in Nizhny Novgorod.

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The company plans to launch a comprehensive product to solve many problems with cybersecurity and mobile fraud. In particular, the new service will have the function of both forcibly blocking access to certain sites (for example, parents will be able to close them for children) and restricting access to resources by qualified information security experts as fraudulent. The developers have also provided an antispam function, an ad blocker, and other features. Some companies have already expressed interest in connecting the service, said Vladimir Bengin, without specifying their names.

Now operators, as well as banks, offer their customers cyber-protection tools in one form or another. While these developments are being conducted separately from each other, one company may have a specific set of services, for example, detecting fraudulent calls and interrupting them, while the other does not, says Denis Kuskov, CEO of Telecom Daily. Therefore, the emergence of a single platform with common standards based on the state operator can improve the situation, he notes.

The entry of a major player into the cybersecurity market for individuals is an important event: This will increase competition in this segment and force other players to actively develop and develop protection tools against hackers and fraudsters, and make the lives of numerous users safer, concluded Eldar Murtazin, a leading analyst at Mobile Research Group.

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