Tashkent will host the CIS Information Security Forum on June 29 this year.

The forum is held by the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan with the support of the Ministry for the Development of Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the CIS Executive Committee.

The event will bring together more than 50 leading experts from the Commonwealth countries. It will be attended by representatives of international organizations and leading analytical centers of the CIS countries, as well as heads of relevant ministries and agencies.

The CIS Executive Secretary Sergey Lebedev, Director General of the CIS Executive Committee of the Regional Commonwealth for communications Nurudin Mukhitdinov, Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Olimjon Umarov and Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Eldor Aripov will address the forum.

The participants will discuss the latest trends in information security, agree on a balanced and coordinated approach in developing optimal methods of countering illegal phenomena in the sphere.

The initiative to hold the Forum was put forward by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the summits of the heads of state of the Commonwealth in 2019 and 2020.

The agenda of the event includes a discussion of such important issues as international cooperation in information security in the context of the digital economy development; combating crimes using information and communication technologies; technical protection of information infrastructure facilities and investigation of cybercrimes; protection of human rights and freedoms in the information environment.

Following the event, it is envisaged to adopt the Final Document of the CIS Information Security Forum, containing practical recommendations for improving the legal framework and institutional mechanisms for cooperation in information security within the framework of the Commonwealth.

UzA