In Samara, the system administrator of the Roscosmos plant was given a suspended sentence - he tried to replace a program that was unavailable due to sanctions

A court in Samara sentenced an employee of the Progress rocket and space center, which produces Soyuz rockets, for connecting a work computer to the Internet. this the FSB reported to Interfax and 63.ru. The regional department of

As the FSB writes, the Samarian “connected his work computer to the Internet and violated the rules for working with information resources, jeopardizing the security of the data processing center of a defense enterprise.”

We are talking about A.E. Esin, an electronics engineer from the IT department of Progress. — “Mediazona” found only one verdict under the article on “illegal influence on critical infrastructure” of Russia in the files of local courts. The Kirovsky District Court of Samara in February 2023 imposed a one-and-a-half-year suspended sentence on the IT specialist, and in May the sentence was replaced by a year of suspended probation.

The FSB claims that the Progress employee’s sentence was upheld on appeal.

According to the verdict, due to the sanctions, Esin’s bureau chief asked him in August 2020 to replace a Western program for accessing an enterprise’s internal network, Cisco Secure Access Control Server , with another. Yesin chose the free FreeRadius program and connected to the Internet to download the installation files, taking precautions.

Esin noted that it was impossible to buy and extend support for Cisco ACS after 2014, and a license for one device was expensive. According to him, by his actions he saved the company 2.4 million rubles. Esin’s boss said in court that the security measures taken were insufficient.

As a result, the enterprise’s computers were not infected, but the investigation considered this to be “technological and operational harm”, which “created the opportunity” to “inflict critical damage up to and including disablement and loss of data” (Part 3 of Article 274.1 of the Criminal Code).

The article on which Yesin was tried appeared in 2017. Depending on the consequences, it involves up to 10 years in prison.