MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Russian Energy Ministry is proposing to oblige Russian and foreign manufacturers to disclose source codes to control turbines, he said.
"If all codes are open and we understand how this works on both the turbine and the control, there are no issues. So if they come, certify themselves, disclose the control codes, there are no issues with the companies … So this is a demand not only for foreign equipment, everyone will have to be certified," Cherezov said.
"There was a public discussion of the normative legal act [to prevent foreign and domestic threats to electric sector facilities' information security]. Foreign companies were active in this process. We have taken into account about 70 percent of all their requests," Cherezov said.
He said the ministry is planning to introduce a certification process with the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEK) for foreign turbine manufacturers.
"This document is a specific set of rules to prevent external and internal threats to information security," Cherezov said when commenting on the rules to prevent outside and inside threats to information security at electricity generation facilities.
The official added that under the document the ministry had also prepared guidelines to find out and to prevent the existing and emerging threats in the sphere of information security.
