Russian defense industry giant Rostec bans employees from Facebook-owned WhatsApp …

The Russian state-owned corporation responsible for investing in strategically important companies, especially in the defense sector, has banned its employees from using American applications such as Zoom, Skype, and WhatsApp. Rostec has ploughed money in hundreds of companies, including those that produce airplanes, tanks, and guns, as well as radio equipment and trucks. These businesses include household names such as the Kalashnikov Concern, the world-famous gun manufacturer.Employees of the conglomerate are prohibited from installing foreign messengers on corporate laptops and computers, its press service said on Thursday.Instead, the company has developed its own system called IVA AVES S, designed to be a secure means for intra-company communications. Fully developed in Russia, and adapted to the particular security requirements of various government agencies, it has been used extensively during the Covid-19 pandemic while employees work from home. Also on rt.com Space, spies & suicide: How Roscosmos adviser & ex-journo Ivan Safronov crash-landed at the centre of NATO-linked espionage drama “Rostec is a major industrial company that operates in the defense sector and develops high-tech civilian areas in aviation, engine construction, electronics, medicine, pharma, and other fields,” a company statement said.“This dictates very serious requirements for information security. It is forbidden to…
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