Luke Rodeheffer
Russia’s annual Information Security Forum took place in early February 2025. Participants included representatives from Russian security services, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and leading Russian information security contractors, including Positive Technologies (Infoforum 2025, accessed March 26). The forum highlighted the growing ties between the Russian state and the country’s information security industry, as well as increased international cooperation in this sector. The forum underscored the Kremlin’s continued desire for a sovereign internet that would be as independent as possible from Western technologies as well as the interest of other authoritarian states in the Kremlin’s digital sovereignty project.
The United States sanctioned Positive Technologies in April 2021 in connection with its alleged collaboration with Russian intelligence services in malicious attacks against the United States (U.S. Treasury Department, April 15, 2021). The sanctions appear to have had little effect, however, as the company’s operations have continued to expand. The company is listed on the Moscow Stock Exchange, and it has recently acquired technologies previously owned by the Russian cybersecurity company “Group IB,” whose founder and former CEO, Ilya Sachkov, was arrested and charged with treason in July 2023 (ServerNews, February 17). The company aims to capture a 20 percent market share in Russia’s information security market, which is projected to reach a value of 700 billion rubles ($8.2 billion) by 2028 (PTSecurity, February 20).
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