Azerbaijan, Baku, May 10 / Trend H. Valiyev /
Azerbaijan intends to join the international information security system, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies said.
According to the ministry, a national information security system is planned to be developed. It will operate under the Ministry. The information security system will mainly focus on developing a strategy in the IT field and combat cybercrime.
The operations are held to create a national information security system within the state program, "Electronic Azerbaijan".
The document for the establishment of information security in Azerbaijan has already been submitted to the government. It was prepared on the basis of world experience. The initial version was developed directly with the Institute of Information Technologies of the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences. The document will regulate electronic security management.
At present, Azerbaijan has already established a team of computer incident responses, AZ-CERT. Its functions include the scientific computer network AzScienceNet, which operates in the country successfully.
AZ-CERT's main activity is a rapid response to emergency situations in the computer sphere and query processing of the incidents.