CYBER SECURITY IS PRIORITY, ARMENIAN POLICE SAYS
Mediamax news agency
21 Mar 06
Yerevan, 21 March: The fight against cyber crimes is one of the
most important tasks facing the Armenian law-enforcement bodies,
the deputy chief of the Police, Maj-Gen Ararat Makhtesyan, said today.
Addressing a round table hosted by the OSCE office in Yerevan and
entitled “Reinforcement of cyber security and of the fight against
cyber crimes in Armenia”, Ararat Makhtesyan said that cyber security
has become especially topical taking into consideration the priority
of information technologies for the republic, Mediamax reports.
He said that the Armenian Police has already developed a programme
to ensure cyber security, and relevant institutions have approved it.
Ararat Makhtesyan noted that a relevant unit has been set up at the
Police to efficiently fight cyber crimes, and amendments have been
made to the Criminal Code. Armenia has also joined the European
convention on computer crime.
A criminal case was filed in Armenia in 2005 under Article 256 of
the Criminal Code (development, usage and distribution of dangerous
computer software).
The head of the OSCE office in Yerevan, Vladimir Pryakhin, said that
“the problem of cyber security lies in human’s lag in understanding
technical progress”.