Question

Countering Cybercrime in Russia

1. State and briefly describe your above research topic.

2. Describe the specific source types that you think will be useful for your research.

3. To plan your search further, list 2 key concept terms derived from your research statement. For each key concept term, list 2 alternative search terms. Use at least one wildcard or truncation with your alternative search terms.

• Key Concept Term 1
  • Alt search term 1
  • Alt search term 2
• Key Concept Term 2
  • Alt search term 1
  • Alt search term 2

4. Explain the purpose of using wildcards and/or truncations as it pertains to your specific search terms above.

Country Mini Research Question

The idea of a free and independent press is something that not every country has access to.   

5. Explore and describe the relationship between your assigned country's government and the press.

6. Go to the 2019 World Press Freedom Index   find where you assigned country is ranked. What does this score mean? How does your assigned country's score in 2019 compare to the previous year (2018)?

7. Who produces this report? Research and describe who they are and explore their mission, methods, objectives, etc.

8. What are the major news organizations in your assigned country? If your country is a non-English speaking county, are there any English-speaking news sources in print or available online? Try to find at least 2 creditable news sources. Share and discuss your findings.

Answer 1

Cyber-security has become the prime concern for securing national security for any country. It mainly focuses on ensuring the safety of systems involved in national services. Special attention are kept on hackers and their community.

Spread of propaganda through social media are also monitored. State sponsored political blogs are also kept on main focus for scrutiny purpose. Internet surveillance is also being used for avoiding any type of online anarchy.

Online monitoring is also being done on each and every monetary transactions. Each and every active measures are being done in order to secure the cyber world. Record of each and every cyber crime is being kept with keen attention.

This type of digital record keeping make aspect of accessibility very easy. Various cyber gangs are also active in Russia. "Evil Corp" is one such organisation which basically deals with cyber crimes. SORM techniques has also been used in Russia for maintaining the cyber security.

SORM stands for Security Operations and Risk Management. Evaluations of risks are done in a prior manner so that futuristic problems can resolved out.