Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

On December 14th, the IV Republican conference on "Actual multidisciplinary scientific-practical problems of information security" was held at the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS. Researchers and experts in the field of information technology (IT) of the country's relevant government agencies, higher education institutions and research institutes of ANAS and media representatives took part in the conference.

Opening the event, academician Akif Alizadeh, President of ANAS said that, the Conference on Information Security, which is, one of the most actual scientific problems of the global information society and for its multidisciplinary character is of great importance.

''Ensuring successful, sustainable development of the information society directly depends on the level of information security", president of ANAS noted. In the modern world, the role of information security is increasing as digitalization and virtual relations expand. Information security has become one of the most important directions of the national security system, scientist highlighted. Today, successful solutions of problems such as the protection of national sovereignty, combating international terrorism, cybercrime, criminal economy and ensuring the inviolability of private life are not possible without a comprehensive assurance of information security.

Speaking about the successful implementation of the process of information society development under the leadership of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, A.Alizade noted that, the information society of our country, as well as the broadband Internet, as well as the state of the electronic government, has occupied one of the world's decent positions. He noted that these development processes increase the provision of information security in our country.

In recent years, works on legislation, infrastructure, personnel training, awareness raising, etc. have been conducted to strengthen information security in our country, he noted. For this purpose, the law “On Protection of Children from Harmful Information” was adopted, the National Strategy on Information Security of the Republic of Azerbaijan is developed and other works were implemented.

The scientist noted that, besides, training of highly qualified personnel for the elimination of technological dependence on foreign countries, the formation of the ICT industry, including the software engineering industry and the training of young professionals in information security are of great importance.

The Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences has been working on the preparation of highly qualified specialists in information security, academician noted. At the Institute of Information Technology, scientific research was carried out on a number of topical aspects of information security, which was of great importance in terms of state interests and the dissertations were carried out. He also noted that the activity of AzScienceNet science-computer network, which is a national operator of science and education networks, providing integration of Azerbaijani science into world science, providing high-quality Internet services to scientific institutions and organizations of ANAS, is also related to information security.

A. Alizade emphasized the importance of such scientific and theoretical conferences and public discussions for the improvement and development of the information security system of our country and the necessity of turning this tradition into a future international scientific conference.

At the meeting, as well as deputy of the Milli Mejlis of Azerbaijan, chairman of Azerbaijan Press Council Aflatun Amashov, Deputy Chairman of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Major-General, Doctor of Technical Sciences Iqbal Babayev, Member of the Milli Majlis, member of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense, Security and Fight against Corruption of the Milli Majlis Hikmat Mammadov, President of Azerbaijan Internet Forum Osman Gunduz, Director of the Institute of Control Systems of ANAS, academician Telman Aliyev, Academician-secretary of ANAS, Director of Institute of Information Technology, academician Rasim Alguliev and representatives of other state and public organizations mentioned the importance of conference. They said that holding such events had great opportunities in terms of discussing topical issues of information security.

Later, the conference continued with a plenary session. Speaking at the meeting, academician-secretary of ANAS, director of the Institute of Information Technology, academician Rasim Alguliyev made a report on "Information Security as a Key Component of National Security" and said that as one of the key components of the national security of each state information security issues are of strategic importance.

The scientist talked about the threats to information and communication systems, the protection of electronic resources and the formation of digital heritage, the problems of child protection in the Internet environment. R. Alguliyev noted that the necessity to gather and analyze statistical data on the status of web resources by foreign operators, the necessity to create statistical and analytical support centers and services of national web resources make essential to carry out scientific researches in these areas, to develop statistical mechanisms meeting national and international requirements.

R. Alguliyev briefed on the conceptual bases of national antivirus, antispam and anti-plagiarism systems, spoke about the interaction of information security and sociocultural sciences. He noted that sociocultural sciences can play a special role in solving the problems of information security and vice versa. (as well as information security in solving the problems of sociocultural sciences.)

The scientist also put forward his proposals on the development of the normative legal basis for information security. According to him, for this purpose taking into account the experience of developed countries, laws coming from international commitments should be adopted on the unmanned aerial vehicle, necessary measures should be taken for the widespread application of normative legal documents, personnel training and scientific research in information law field should be carried out.

Protection of the Azerbaijani language is a problem of national information security, the director of the institute stressed. He informed about the architectural bases of the e-national state. It includes national terminology system, national orthography- orthoepy system, transliteration system, computer translation systems, national dictionaries, dialectology system, language teaching and assessment systems, the system of national names, linguistic resources and systems of small nations, sign language resources and systems, text engineering and etc.

Later, Technical Director, Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Rashid Alakbarov delivered a report on "Information Security Issues of AzScienceNet Science Computer Network". He gave detailed information about the AzScienceNet network infrastructure, usage policy, technical data network capabilities, network integration with GEANT network infrastructure, cooperation with the Azerbaijan Education Network, information security, unauthorized access to network usage, users' warnings and reasons for security incidents.

R.Alakbarov spoke about the goals and objectives of the information security policy in the network. Minimization of material and moral damage that can lead to information security threats to ANAS networks and information resources, increase of business reputation of ANAS, formation of common principles for information security, development of information security system, formation of appropriate organizational-methodical base for activity and development are the main goals and objectives of AzScienceNet’s information security policy.

R. Alakbarov informed about the main issues that were settled during the development of the information security system in the network and noted that these issues include identification and analysis of potential threats to information security in the corporate network of ANAS, classification of information resources on the corporate network of ANAS, identification of common requirements and rules in terms of information security, as well as the formation of requirements for the information security system.

R.Alakbarov also pointed out work done on AzScienceCERT service, AzScienceNet monitoring and information security service and equipment used for organization of this service, enhancement of reliability of Data Processing Center equipment, expansion and improvement of information security activities.

Then, head of department, correspondent member of ANAS, Ramiz Aliguliyev delivered a report on “Methods for detecting some threats to national security in e-government". He noted that an approach to the filtering of texts promoting terrorism in an electronic government environment, fuzzy model for assessing threats and a method to detect anomalies from information collected in an e-government environment were proposed. Comparison of these methods with other known methods was conducted, experimental results have shown the effectiveness of the new approach and methods.

Then, the conference continued with section sessions on "Scientific-theoretical Problems of Information Security", "Humanitarian Problems of Information Security" and "Practical Problems of Information Security".

At the sessions, presentations on "The method of increasing the efficiency of cloud-based electronic government services", "Detection of False Profiles on Social Networks”, “Provision of information cybersecurity and its technologies”, "Electronic national government: opportunities and perspectives for the protection and development of Azerbaijani language", “Plagiarism as an important aspect of information security”, “Problems of protection of personal data in electronic government environment ", "Some Methods of Ensuring Software Security", "Analysis of experimental technologies for Software testing”, "Data sanitization - as information security”, "Methods for analyzing malicious software in Computer Networks" and etc. were delivered.

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