On December 4, at the invitation of the Iranian side, a delegation from the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, led by Chief of the Joint Staff Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, took part in the final stage of joint anti-terrorism trainings conducted by the competent authorities of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization “Sahand-Anti-Terror 2025” in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the “BRICS+ 2025 Anti-Terrorism Conference: National and Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategies in the Context of Emerging Challenges and Security Threats”, held in Moscow.
A delegation from the CSTO Secretariat, led by the Deputy Secretary General Taalatbek Masadikov, took part from 1 to 5 December in the VIII Coordination Meeting of High-Level Representatives of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross (hereinafter referred to as the Coordination Meeting) at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva.
The XX meeting of the CSTO Consulting Coordination Center Council on Responding to Computer Incidents was held
18.11.2025
On November 18, 2025, Moscow hosted the 20th meeting of the CSTO Consulting Coordination Center Council on Responding to Computer Incidents (CSTO CCC), which was attended by delegations of representatives of the national authorized bodies of the CSTO member states.
The meeting was opened by Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, who delivered a welcoming speech to the participants.
During the meeting, participants from the delegations of the CSTO member states discussed current threats to information security and methods of countering them.
The speakers noted a massive increase in the number of attacks using supply chains and counterparties, as well as the intensive involvement of various interacting organizations and structures in carrying them out.
The meeting participants expressed particular concern about threats related to leaks of personal data of individuals and legal entities, as well as attacks through trusted external communication channels that contribute to computer incidents.
During the event, delegates exchanged views on current threats and issues related to the rapid dissemination of information about critical software vulnerabilities to the owners of vulnerable resources and how to respond to them.
They noted the active development of information exchange between specialists at the CSTO CCC contact points and a simultaneous increase in the number of joint events.
They expressed their gratitude to the representative of the Kyrgyz Republic for organizing and hosting the first CSTO International Conference on Cybersecurity in June this year.
