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formation of recommendations concerning the practical actions directed to
maintenance of the highest level of security of information resources of the State
x Revealing attempts of non-authorized access to information and
telecommunication networks of bodies of the government and realization of
necessary actions for their discontinuance
x Creation and introduction of a system of notification of cases of non-authorized
access and virus attacks on information and telecommunication systems (ITS) of
bodies of the government;
x The organization of international cooperation in the sphere of protection of
information in ITS with similar structures abroad, i.e., CSIRT (Computer Security
Incident Response Teams)
The urgency of essentially new threats to integrity, accessibility and confidentiality of
information due to destructive actions of computer viruses in Ukraine has been
confirmed by a wide circulation in a global network (the Internet), in particular in its
national segment, of various computer viruses, whose destructive actions cause great
financial and moral harm in certain cases.
During peak activity of well-known viruses, the complex system of protection of units
in the Internet (access of Department) reveals and warns damage approximately from 3 to
5,000 viruses per day which could access the ITS of corresponding State bodies in the
process of electronic correspondence with respondents. As a rule, we stop from 270 to
385 attempts at virus attacks on the ITS of State bodies per month and approximately
from 4 to 42 attacks per day.
At present one of the real steps in our struggle against the spread of computer viruses
is the creation of a system of anti-virus protection of State information resources, the
basis for which should become the Centre of Anti-Virus Protection of Information.
The Centre should perform the following tasks:
x Dispatch of warnings and distribution of a certified means of protection against
viruses, including information concerning the mechanisms of the activities of the
viruses and possible ways of their neutralization, etc
x The organization and coordination of efforts of all structures which work in the
sphere of anti-virus protection in ITS of government bodies and commercial and
bank structures
x Operative interaction with representatives of services of protection of information
on questions of realization of information support, provision of information about
revealed virus threats and attacks, and recommendations concerning methods of
counteraction
x Granting services on testing of ITS with the purpose of revealing weak points in
systems of anti-virus protection
The distribution of State information resources in the Internet network, the prompt
urgent growth of all-European and nation-wide programmes such as "The Electronic
Country", "The Electronic Government', etc., the use of the Internet for fast overcoming
distances between person and State, the expansion of processes of democratization and
transparency of system of government management - all this makes the efforts directed to
prevention and counteraction of non-authorized actions in the Internet network extremely
actual and determines the necessity of creation of one more element of infrastructure of
security of State information resources - the Centre of Security of the Ukrainian segment
of the Internet network (CSI).
The primary goals of this Centre should be:
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