On 20 December, a joint training session was held between the duty shifts of the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the command posts of the defense and emergency ministries of the Organization's member states.
On 10 and 11 December, the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization hosted videoconference consultations of representatives of interested ministries and departments of the CSTO member states on the organization of joint training activities in 2026 for the CSTO collective security system's command and control bodies and formations.
On December 11, 2024, Taalatbek Masadykov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General and Special Representative of the CSTO Secretary General for Peacekeeping, held a meeting with the delegation of the Monitoring Group (MG) of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committees 1267/1989/2253 on ISIS and “Al-Qaeda” and 1988 on the Taliban Movement.
On December 11, 2024, the 40th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held with the participation of the CSTO Deputy Secretary General S. Ordabayev and the CSTO Deputy Secretary General T. Masadykov. The event was also attended by delegations of the Organization's member states and representatives of the UNOCT, the UNRCCA, the CIS ATC, the Coordination Service of the CIS Council of Commanders of Border Troops, the SCO RATS, and the ICRC.
On the XVIII meeting of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Consultative Coordination Centre for Computer Incident Response Issues
05.11.2024On 5 November 2024, the XVIII meeting of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Consultative Coordination Centre for Computer Incident Response Issues (CSTO CCC) was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of the national authorized bodies for computer incident response of the CSTO member states.
The meeting was opened and addressed by Mr. Sergey Korelov, Chairman of the CSTO CCC Council
During the meeting, members of the CSTO CCC Council, participants of delegations of the CSTO member states and the CSTO Secretariat discussed topical threats to information security and methods of countering them.
Speakers noted the massive increase in the number of attacks using the vendor chain and the intensive involvement of various interacting organizations and structures in carrying them out.
The meeting participants expressed particular concern about threats related to the leakage of significant amounts of data from individuals and legal entities, as well as attacks through trusted external interaction channels that contribute to the occurrence of computer incidents.
During the event, delegates exchanged views on modern threats and the problem of promptly communicating information about critical software vulnerabilities to the owners of vulnerable resources and responding to them. They noted the active development of information exchange activities between the specialists of the CSTO CCC contact points and the growth in the number of joint events. They expressed their gratitude to the representatives of the Republic of Kazakhstan for organizing and conducting a technical training session of the CSTO CCC Contact Points.
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