• Established as part of the Directorate General for Security and Information Protection of the Bank of Russia;
• Serves as a competence center for the exchange of information between the Bank of Russia, banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs), integrator companies, anti-virus software vendors and communications service providers and operators, and specifically for law enforcement and other public authorities overseeing cyber security across the industry;
• The exchange of information is intended to coordinate the efforts to prevent and deter the activities of perpetrators threating he IT infrastructure and services of the organizations supervised by the Bank of Russia.

Key objectives:

• Organize and coordinate the exchange of information between the FinCERT, law enforcement authorities, banks and NBFIs;
• Analyze data about cyber-attacks on banks and NBFIs and prepare analytics;
• Issue information protection guidelines for the safe transfer of funds.