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12 Mar 2019

Plans to adopt Belarus information security concept soon

Plans to adopt Belarus information security concept soon

MINSK, 12 March (BelTA) – A draft of the national information security concept was discussed at a session of the Security Council of Belarus on 12 March. Plans have been made to adopt the concept soon, BelTA learned from State Secretary of the Security Council Stanislav Zas.

“The core was backed by members of the Security Council today. Instructions were given to analyze today’s discussion within literally several days, by Monday, and make amendments if necessary. The next week the ready version with minimal adjustments is supposed to be submitted for signing to members of the Security Council and the head of state as the chairman of the Security Council. The next week – there is no doubt about that – the concept will be officially adopted and published,” the official said.

The information security concept has been drafted upon instructions of the head of state. All the agencies concerned and the country’s most competent specialists took part in this work. Specialists from nearly 20 government agencies and organizations, representatives of leading mass media, members of the parliament, scientists, and experts helped put together the document.

The document was worked out taking into account Belarus’ geopolitical interests, its place and role in the modern world. The document reflects modern challenges and threats, which are evolving in the information sphere and pose danger to the constitutional foundation and operation of states such as manipulation of the collective consciousness, discrediting of ideals and values, erosion of national sovereignty, instability of information infrastructure.

It is the first time the draft concept has stipulated information sovereignty as an inalienable and exclusive supreme right of the state to independently determine rules of ownership, usage, and management of national information resources, to pursue an independent foreign and domestic state information policy, to shape the national information infrastructure, and ensure information security. It is supposed to be achieved among other things by pursuing the policy of information neutrality, which provides for recognition of universally acknowledged and accepted rights of any state in this sphere and rules out interference with the information sphere of other countries.

For the first time the public document also stipulates the readiness of the state to incessantly detect risks, challenges, and threats in the information sphere and respond to them. The document introduces the term “cyber security”.

Apart from effective work of mass media the draft concept underlines the importance of active presence of the state in the Internet. Apart from official websites of government agencies the document mentions blogs, instant messaging apps, and social networks.

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