Airat Khairullin, the Minister of Digital Development of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan, told about the main directions of the Ministry's work, the center for digital transformation of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as about the work of the sovereign Internet in Tatarstan and correspondence in messengers.
"If someone tomorrow decides to physically block the DNS server system for Russia, our IP routing may be disrupted. Therefore, we are talking about allowing traffic to be routed at the junction of Russian and foreign providers."
According to him, Tatarstan has already created the appropriate infrastructure for the sustainable protection of the Internet from external attacks. Thus, all 10 thousand social objects of the Republic are connected to the Internet through the Data Processing Center (DPC) in the IT Park. There is a second data center for disaster resilience in the Council State.
"And technically, if the DPC of the IT Park is destroyed by fire or flood, we have a fault tolerance point, and within this logic, it is also a sovereign Internet," he said.
In an interview with journalists, Khairullin also shared that he uses popular messengers, including the Telegram blocked in Russia.
The Minister also commented on the statement of Pavel Durov regarding the insecurity of using WhatsApp and calls to remove it.
"Any application carries a vulnerability. The question of compromises is to be completely without a phone and use pigeon mail or use messengers," said Khairullin.
On November 12, the Prime Minister of the Republic signed a decree on the establishment of the Tatarstan Digital Technology Center. The new institution was created to improve the quality of life of Tatarstan citizens, accelerate the receipt of public services, as well as simplify the interaction between the state, society and business.
Recall that Khairullin previously said that 7 cyberattacks occur on the DPS every day. Therefore, to improve the security system next year, the Ministry of Digital Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan has planned a competition for white hat hackers who will have to try to find the shortcomings and vulnerabilities of the Republican website of public services and hack it. The exact date when this experiment will take place has not yet been determined.