President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has approved additional protocols signed on 24 November 2011 concerning the agreement on cooperation between National Security Ministry (NSM) of Azerbaijan and Federal Security Service (FSS) of Russia.
In particular protocols №17 and №18 to the basic agreement have been approved. The first one implies that NSM’s Information Communication Technologies Centre and FSS’s Special communication Centre will cooperate in provision of open information communication networks safety provision, provide mutual safety of such networks, systems and information resources, conduct expertise on information communication systems licensing issues, suppress unsanctioned intrusion in open networks by apparatus methods, exchange information on Internet means, viruses and attacks to computers and certification of antivirus programs, Fineko/abc.az reports.
The protocol №18 is dedicated to cyber crime and cyber terrorism issues , including crimes in e-commerce area. It will be implemented by Anti Terror Centre and Chief Department of Anti-Transnational Crime of NSM and Information Safety Center of FSS. They will jointly fight against crimes in e-commerce and computer safety areas, mutually protect official resources from illegal intrusion, ban use of open networks for conducting terror activity and terrorism financing, close activity of extremist (including religious extremism) , terrorist, anti-constitutional sites, providers and certain individuals, combat international hacker groups.
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