In addition, 26% of Russian companies plan to implement artificial intelligence technologies
Last year, more than half of Russian companies increased their budgets for the development of information security systems (IS) by an average of 20%, according to a joint report by Yandex Cloud and Business Solutions and Technologies (DRT, formerly Deloitte), which was reviewed by Forbes ” – This increase in investment is associated with the acquisition of specialized software from new suppliers, as well as an increase in the staff of information security specialists to counter intense cyber attacks, which have increased since 2022. At the same time, investments are growing the most for companies that completely replace information security services, rather than renew current licenses, DRT clarified.
More than 300 representatives of Russian companies, including those from the banking sector, retail and industry, took part in the study. Directors of IT and information security, heads of digital transformation programs, information security and IT specialists completed in-depth and quantitative interviews. –
The average budget of companies for information security depends on the size of the business, industry and the state of current information security services. In 2024, the volume of investments in information security for small and medium-sized businesses could range from $40,000 to $80,000, reported the Business Solutions and Technologies company. – For large companies, the budget for information security can amount to millions of dollars, especially in the IT and telecom sector. Companies also began to increasingly use machine learning models to protect infrastructure, and cloud technologies for secure development, the study says.
The interest and demand for such technologies among businesses is confirmed by expert assessments: the global IT infrastructure (cloud) outsourcing market is about $200 billion a year, while the Russian market is less than $1 billion, but is growing rapidly. According to iKS-Consulting, the volume of the Russian cloud market in 2026 may exceed 199 billion rubles, doubling compared to last year’s 86.6 billion rubles, iKS-Consulting partner Tatyana Tolmacheva previously cited such data in a column for Forbes. – AI algorithms are most often used to solve two problems: detecting anomalies in large amounts of data and managing incidents. Automation of information security processes using AI is most common in the financial sector – it is used by 71% of companies. This is due to the maturity of the industry and the need to constantly meet new regulatory requirements, the study says.
Director of Information Security at Yandex Cloud Evgeniy Sidorov explains: last year, a preview version of the service became available to companies based on Anti-Robot (internal Yandex technology), which annually repels “record DDoS attacks” on all the company’s services. – ML algorithms are constantly retrained on a large volume of real legitimate and illegitimate traffic. Thus, AI helps protect companies’ web resources from common L7 level DDoS attacks, block bots and increase application stability,” the expert stated.
Let us recall that , according to estimates by the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, more than 600 thousand attempted computer attacks have been made on the infrastructure of JSC Russian Railways since the beginning of 2023. This is 20 times more than in 2021
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