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Security Vision CEO Ruslan Rakhmetov partly agrees that difficulties may arise for certified information security tools: "The certification process is regulated by the FSTEC of Russia and can take a significant period of time (from six to 12 months), so the release of certified versions of information security tools is expensive for manufacturers, and this is reflected in the cost of the final product. In addition, vendors also face additional difficulties when releasing updates for certified versions of information security tools, despite the FSTEC's desire to simplify this procedure - for colombia whatsapp number database example, a draft order has now been prepared on the procedure for certifying processes for the secure development of information security tools, which should significantly simplify the process of releasing updates and new versions of information security tools. Vendors are unlikely to be ready to abandon the release of information security tools for Windows now: cyberspace is not becoming safer, new threats are emerging, the market for domestic information security products is growing, and company executives are increasingly aware of the importance of ensuring business cyber resilience. Most likely, additional regulatory measures are not required now."

that this problem is likely to arise in the medium term: "The Windows share is decreasing very slowly, both among commercial and government users. The transition to domestic operating systems is hampered by the lack of a large amount of application software, the complexity of reconfiguring workstations, and difficulties with automated PC and server management tools. Even in the future, the decline in the Windows share will not affect the mass information security system segment, such as antivirus software, where a large percentage of the market is made up of private users. Most likely, this audience will not be affected by the transition to domestic operating systems in the next 10 years or more. More specialized information security systems, used, for example, in state secret processing systems, may release versions exclusively for Russian operating systems in five years. However, this should not be expected earlier, and product updates for Windows will be released regularly."

Denis Chigin, Head of the Technological Expertise Department of the Information Security Department of Softline Group, believes that these concerns are exaggerated and does not see a reduction in the range of protection tools, including those certified for the Windows platform: "Rather, we can talk about a trend of increasing the number of certified tools for other operating systems, which, against the background of various decrees and instructions regarding import substitution, in my opinion, is quite logical. The presence of appropriate certificates is an extremely important factor for many customers when choosing a particular product, even if there are no corresponding requirements from the regulator, so the market adapts to the corresponding purchasing habits and tries to obtain certificates even in those classes of solutions where the regulator does not provide for separate certification."

Igor Korchagin, Head of the Information Security Department at IVK JSC, believes that this threat is not yet relevant, but will inevitably arise in the future: "Judging by market trends, developers of overlay security tools continue to develop Windows versions. For example, Kaspersky Lab continues to release a user antivirus for Windows, SecretNet from Code Security, ViPNet Client from InfoTex are updated, and DLP systems continue to be released. These products officially support Windows up to and including Windows 11. The current level of protection is quite sufficient to protect legacy software. The certificates for a number of these security tools expire this year, but I am sure that they will be reissued. But in the future, of course, such a collision will arise: in a few years, security tool developers will stop releasing new versions of products for Windows."

Roman Karpov, head of the information security committee of the ARPP "Domestic Software", director of strategy and development of technologies of Axiom JDK, sees the problem rather in the fact that the transfer of application software from Windows to Linux is not going fast enough: "The current technological reserve of domestic IT developers exists not thanks to, but in spite of decades of digital colonization, that is, investments in the implementation and use of foreign technologies. And some part of the software written for Windows has a very science-intensive base, or the development qualification is focused only on the Windows platform. Probably, this is one of the points of possible application of state support. At the same time, it makes no difference whether the software is certified or not."

"In the near and medium term, InfoTex will continue to release and support products for Windows OS, providing customers with a comfortable migration mode to products for Linux OS," - this is the comment provided by the press service of InfoTex JSC in response to a request from ComNews.

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