As one of its first security policy decisions, the Biden administration agreed to extend the New START Treaty for five years with no conditions. The New START Treaty represents one of the last remaining vestiges of international arms control architecture and one of the few areas of potentially prod...
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The monograph is devoted to topical issues of international security and strategic stability in the context of accelerated development of information and communication technologies. It justifies the importance of ensuring international information security. The monograph examines the possibility of ...
The Valdai Discussion Club
February 9, 2021.
Autonomous weapons are moving from engineering concept to army arsenals all around the world, and reports on their combat use are becoming more frequent. The first surprise about drones is that non-government military groups were the first to use them i...
Russian-American strategic relations are entering uncharted waters with the demise of the arms control regime; rapid technological revolution; the rise of nuclear multipolarity; the asymmetry of the two countries’ positions amid their growing confrontation and an increasing likelihood of military con...
Now when the U.S. presidential elections are over the fate of the START Treaty and nuclear arms control, in general, has become clearer.
The New START treaty is set to expire on February 5, 2021, and only a few months ago there was little doubt that it would be the end of it. The Trump administratio...
Experts
City :
Moscow
Affiliation :
Kaspersky Lab
Position :
Senior product marketing manager at the Department of critical infrastructure protection
Expertise :
International legal regulation in cybersecurity area
Information security
Cyber security
E-mail :
[email protected]
Biography :
Senior product marketing manager at the Departmentof critical infrastructure protection of the Kaspersky Lab. Before that as a product manager supervised the development of a line of information security solutions for enterprises. Has more than 10 years of product management experience in various Russian IT companies, including Yandex, as well as in a number of startups. In 2006 graduated from the Faculty of Economic at Moscow State University. In 2008 received a master's degree in Management from the Graduate Business School of Moscow State University.
Affiliation :
Information Culture
Position :
Director
Biography :
Since 1999 has been working in IT: started with the basics of Unix Server Administration, and then as a developer, is currently a director and co-founder of non-profit partnership Information Culture. Director of Linked Open Data in W3C Russia (international organization for standardization). Written public projects RosGosZatraty, Public revenues, Goslyudi, The State and its information and many others. Co-founder of the Foundation for Democracy and Development e-Russian competition Apps4Russia, member of the working group fund Open Knowledge Foundation in the direction of open government data. In 2011, won the award in the field of social and political journalism Power N4, in 2012 - the winner of pressZvanie in the "zone of special attention."
City :
Moscow
Affiliation :
InfoWatch Group
Position :
CEO
Expertise :
Information security
Cyber security
Biography :
Graduated from Moscow State Institute of Electronic Engineering with a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics, and has a bachelor’s degree in Business of The UK Open University. Natalya Kaspersky is an active participant of international business community life and actively invests in high-tech companies.
Natalya is a co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, one of the world's largest antivirus companies, and CEO of InfoWatch Group of Companies, working in the sphere of information security. During her 10-year tenure at Kaspersky Lab Natalya turned a small group of enthusiasts into a world-class international IT company with annual revenues of hundreds millions USD.
Natalya holds multiple awards in Russian and International Business and IT (“Russian Business Leader of the Year 2012” award according to Horasis, the Global visions community; leader of “Top-1000 highest Russian managers of 2013” in IT according to Kommersant and Association of Russian managers; Best Technology Business Entrepreneur, Women in Technology MEA 2014 awards, Dubai, etc.).
City :
Moscow, Russia
Affiliation :
Business Development Director, JSC AMT-Group
Expertise :
Cyber security
Biography :
One of the most authoritative members of the Russian Internet community. Was the technical leader of the first Russian project of mass broadband Internet access services and IP TV. 1995-2000 — headed the Internet project of the Combellga Internet provider, which was in Russia’s top ten in terms of revenue at the time. 2001-2003 — technical director of MTU-Intel. At the same time headed the technical service of Russia’s first project on granting broadband Internet access using ADSL technology (later known as Stream). Organized Russia’s first IP TV testing (later known as Stream TV). 2004-2005 — Deputy General Director, ROSNET. 2006-2011 — technical director of Akado-Stolitsa, Russia’s largest operator in the market of the B2C services for the Internet and cable digital television, with an audience of up to one million people. 2001-2010 — a member of the Coordination Center for TLD RU Board. Took an active part in the drafting of Russia’s first Internet normative documents on data transmission and telematics and the elaboration of technical requirements to LESS online. Since 2014 head Internet Support Foundation. A member of the Council of Europe's Committee of experts on cross-border flow of Internet traffic and Internet freedom. A member of PIR Center Advisory Board since 2015.
City :
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Affiliation :
PIR Center
Position :
Consultant
Expertise :
Central Asia
National and international cyber strategies
E-mail :
[email protected]
Biography :
PhD in political sciences. Got her degree from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Tashkent, Uzbekistan) with major in “Political Issues of International Relations and Global Development”). Graduate with Master degree of International Relations Faculty/ International Journalism Department. In 2008-2009 participated in Professional Management Program (intensive MBA program) at the Uzbekistan-Japan Center for Human Development with getting PMP degree. Participant of a number of conferences and seminars on Central Asia security. Graduate of the International Summer School on Global Security. Research interests include the problems of regional security in Central Asia, information security, global information space in the emerging new world order. 06/17
City :
Moscow, Russia
Affiliation :
Executive Vice-President for Cooperation with Public Authorities, PJSC VimpelCom
Expertise :
International legal regulation in cybersecurity area
Information security
International aspects of Internet development
Internet identification
National and international cyber strategies
Biography :
Mikhail is an experienced attorney and specialist in the field of information security. He is the PayPal IRM Director, earlier - vice president of the Mail.ru Group and previously served as president of the Coordination Center of the Russian Top-Level Domain (RU), DST Advisors Managing Director. Mikhail focuses on information rights issues, including access to information. He has co-authored the drafts of most of Russia's legislation on information technology. Previously, he was employed at Microsoft Russia, where he was responsible for the corporation's cooperation with governmental authorities in Russia and other CIS states. Mikhail represented the Russian Federation in the G8 working group on legal issues, and in 2004, he was a member of the working group on Internet governance established by the U.N. Secretary-General. Mikhail served as the Chair of PIR Center's Working Group on International Information Security and Global Internet Governance under the Center's Advisory Board in 2012-2014.