ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia Friday Armenian President: NSS should work as a good clock mechanism - 24 hours 7 days a week Yerevan December 22 Marianna Mkrtchyan. The National Security Service of Armenia should work as a good clock mechanism - 24 hours 7 days a week. This was stated by the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan at the solemn meeting dedicated to the Day of the National Security Officer. The president stated that in the rooms of the staff of the structure the light burns until late in the evening. And, in this context, he added that he is perfectly aware of everything, since he is focusing on issues related to the national security of the country. "I am sure that the NSS staff fulfill their obligations with high responsibility and professionalism. Our course, our steps to confront the existing challenges were consonant with positive results, but we should not be satisfied with the achievements in the sphere of National Security .It is obvious that internal and external challenges are not are reduced, but on the contrary they become more multifaceted and sometimes even disguised, "the Armenian leader said, and in this context stressed that the current international and regional military-political leader The situation remains tense. According to him, Armenia is involved in this large-scale and consolidated process, both from the point of view of ensuring its own security and ensuring guarantees of cooperation with other states with partners. At the same time, the Armenian President stated that due to timely operational intelligence activities, the employees of the Organs managed to prevent both terrorist threats and closely related criminal manifestations. He also added that international experts, in the coming years, do not predict a decline in terrorist threats. "From this point of view, Armenia has always been considered a relatively safe country, but we can not exclude that in connection with our geopolitical situation, specific external environment and increasing tourist flow, there will be forces that will try to encroach upon Armenia's security. The fight against this evil in parallel with vigilance is necessary to work closely with our allies and other interested services. Our country will be open and tourism is one of the key directions for the development of our economy Moreover, the process of liberalizing the visa regime with a number of countries will be of a long duration, therefore, you should always stay awake, I believe that you must triple your efforts in the anti- terrorist sphere and periodically improve methods and means of combating terrorism, "he said. Sargsyan. At the same time, he stressed that one of the priority issues on the agenda of the upcoming legislative body will be a review of the current strategy to combat terrorism - with a view to modernizing it, harmonizing with current needs and giving it flexibility. At the same time, the Armenian leader stressed that the experience of combating one of the types of terrorism - cyber terrorism - showed that the threats coming from this sphere also do not become less, moreover, they show that it is necessary to take the problems of cyber security more seriously, taking into account the importance , which is acquired in the ordinary life of information and telecommunications technology. According to him, this sphere is one of the leading in the Armenian economy, where there is a serious potential and prospects. "We have to protect both the physical and digital infrastructures of our country from criminal forces, only in 2017 you stopped 1.5 million attempts to hack and attack information structures and official websites of government agencies. And we certainly are not talking about microproblems. We are going to look for simple solutions, restricting freedom of speech or the right to disseminate information. In Armenia there will be no Internet censorship. I am convinced that the society in Armenia is so mature that it can solve these microproblems through self. National security structures must act within international law and international best practice ", - he said, and in this context the added importance of international cooperation on this issue. The Armenian leader also stressed the importance of providing the information and communication infrastructure at the micro level. According to him, the state databases and networks should be protected in the best way, the interest to which from external criminal forces is inevitable. Sargsyan believes that such encroachment can be both from the countries-opponents and organized terrorist groups, and from the part of individuals, so to speak, "partisans". At the same time, the Armenian leader stressed that one of the priorities of the National Security Service of Armenia continues to be the increase of intelligence and counterintelligence activities. According to him, it is necessary to work both inside the country, and maybe abroad. "Summing up the results in this area allows us to talk about success with some satisfaction, while the existing military-political situation, the intelligence activity of the main enemy and the constantly developing communication technologies force us to be constantly vigilant." Threats that have a qualitatively new essence require balanced measures of counteraction, "the Armenian leader said. He highly appreciated the work done to protect the state borders, and stated that thanks to the vigilance of the border guards in this area, positive results are fixed year after year. At the same time, Sargsyan stated that in recent years the number of attempts of illegal crossing of the state border by foreigners has been increasing. "The increase in migration due to regional and global processes makes it possible to predict that for the transition from one country to another, different individuals and organizations will seek new directions for illegal migration. This will also cause unhealthy interest in our state with the Ministry of Defense and the Police, to eliminate possible omissions that could facilitate illegal border crossing, "he said. In Sargsyan's opinion, it is necessary to take into account that in this matter the slightest omission can be used by the enemy to carry out sabotage and reconnaissance penetration.