AzNet to be safe during European Games

/By AzerNews/

By Nigar Orujova

Azerbaijani segment of the Internet will be safe during the inaugural European Games. The Games will be held this June and the country is fully prepared now.

The primary provider of Azerbaijan Delta Telecom has enhanced the protection of the Azerbaijani segment of the Internet from malicious attacks and intrusions, the company reported.

The project involves filtering incoming Internet traffic to protect the entire perimeter of AzNET from DDoS-attacks.

Hardware and software systems of the American company Arbor Networks are used to protect the network against cyber attacks. The systems allow to monitor the computer networks and effectively detect anomalies and DDoS-attacks.

"The equipment allows full control and prevention of large-scale attacks on internal resources," the company said.

Delta Telecom uses different methods to ensure the security of the network. One method involves the purification of traffic at the border points, and the other is carried out in situ by internal filtering.

In case of anomalies, the system locks them at the border points, and then at an internal filter blocks all sorts of attacks, such as attacks with a large number of requests that result in a system failure.

The new protection system will ensure high resistance of the segment, which is an important aspect during the events.

Azerbaijan is developing information technology in the country and cyber-security is an important issue. The country aims to strengthen cyber security in its fast-growing ICT sector and successfully rebuke hack attacks.

The rapid economic development of Azerbaijan has strengthen the need for preventing and countering cyber-crimes. In the country, some 70 percent of the population uses the Internet. Some people use it for business purposes, some to pay for services. This makes many people to be concerned over the safety of cash payments.

High online risks

Azerbaijani internet users are in the risk zone, as the risk of infection is subject to 38.43 percent of computer users in the country, said a public review of the "Development of information threats" by Kaspersky Lab in the first quarter of 2015.

Azerbaijan has sadly taken the third place among the 20 countries that were the most at risk of infection via the Internet.

The top 10 countries with the results entered in the 42.37-32.20 percents are Kazakhstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Croatia, Armenia, Mongolia, Moldova, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan.

The twenty countries under the risk also include Algeria, Qatar, Georgia, United Arab Emirates, Latvia, Tajikistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Tunisia and Bulgaria.

The countries where computers are safe from the risk of Internet infection are Japan (14.7 percent), Denmark (20.1 percent), Sweden (21.4 percent), Hong Kong (21.5 percent), and Finland (21.6 percent).

To assess the risk of infection via the Internet, Kaspersky Lab has calculated how often during the quarter, users in each country were faced with the actuation of Web-antivirus.

In the first quarter of 2015, the company reflected more than 469 million attacks, carried out in internet resources located in different countries.

During this period, the Web-antivirus discovered more than 28.4 million unique malwares (scripts, exploits, executables, etc.). The number of blocked malicious attacks on computers and mobile devices of users has exceeded 2.2 billion.