By Alish Abdulla

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BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 9.​ We have
identified a number of global cyber threat actors targeting
critical information infrastructures and have timely prevented
their cyber intrusion attempts this year, Chief of the Azerbaijan
State Security Service, Colonel General Ali Naghiyev said in his
address to the participants of the CIDC 2025—Critical
Infrastructure Defence Challenge cybersecurity festival in the
scientific and methodological journal “Information Security,”
Trend reports.

According to him, the priorities of the National Cybersecurity
Center of the State Security Service included strengthening
international cooperation to prevent activities targeting
Azerbaijan’s national interests in global cyberspace over the past

The official noted that within the framework of various
cooperation platforms, mutual cooperation relations have been
formed with the responsible bodies for cybersecurity of more than
160 countries, as well as global technology companies and
organizations:

“This year, the State Security Service has formed a software
platform for the registry of critical information infrastructure
facilities, identified officials and responsible persons for the
security of critical information infrastructure, and also created
secure communication channels with these persons.

Besides, a joint commission consisting of employees of the State
Security Service and the State Service for Special Communications
and Information Security has been formed to verify the status of
compliance with general and specific requirements for the security
of critical information infrastructures.

This year, a number of individuals accused of unauthorized
access to legally protected information by carrying out a
cyberattack against a critical information infrastructure facility,
as well as organizing the illegal circulation of software, have
been charged with crimes under the relevant articles of the
Criminal Code and brought to justice,” he articulated.

Naghiyev emphasized that the realities of such growing cyber
threats, especially modern challenges in the field of security of
critical information infrastructures, require the constant study of
international experience, the application of advanced industry
standards, the expansion of information exchange, and especially
the strengthening of national human resources potential.

“The National Cybersecurity Center has created the MISP (Malware
Information Sharing Platform), which ensures the collection,
analysis, and sharing of all types of cyber threat information
among interested parties; allows for cooperation with local and
global organizations; coordinates this information; and strengthens
collective cyber defense.

The MISP platform, established in 2023, allows for the exchange
of indicators such as malicious IP addresses and domain names,
malicious files and their identification values, etc. between the
subjects of the country’s critical information infrastructure. This
platform has also become an important tool for effective
cooperation with partner foreign special services in the joint
fight against cyber threats,” Naghiyev added.

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