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What is the mechanism used to grant licenses for electronic applications to work on the Syrian network?

2022-09-14T08:27:03.944Z


Damascus, SANA- With the aim of regulating the electronic applications market according to international controls and protecting the rights of users of these applications and


Damascus-SANA

With the aim of regulating the electronic applications market in accordance with international controls, protecting the rights of users of these applications, maintaining the privacy of their data, spreading the culture and approving electronic transactions in all correspondence, the Directorate of Regulation and Licensing in the National Network Services Authority is working on implementing the tasks related to granting the necessary permission to work applications on the Syrian network and monitoring compliance with its conditions.

The Director of Regulation and Licensing in the Authority, Engineer Madeleine Al-Shelly, explained in a statement to SANA reporter that the work of the Directorate is distributed through the Studies Department, the Grants and Follow-up Department, and the Consultation and Arbitration Department, and that the applications that need a permit are social media applications and commercial applications “e-marketing, electronic payment and banking services” in addition to applications for transportation and health services. and education.

Shelly stated that during the authorization of electronic applications, it is ensured that they are safe for investment on the network and do not contain any security gaps that cause loss or theft of data exchanged through them, especially in applications that exchange highly sensitive data such as banking applications and electronic payment applications, noting that this follow-up contributes to raising the level of applications And increase its ability to compete in the internal and external markets.

With regard to the return of the application reliability fees, Al-Shelly confirmed that it is very simple compared to the return obtained from the work of applications, since the authority is still working to encourage and grow the application market to be one of the supporting structures for the digital transformation strategy, calling on all users to read the application’s usage policy before downloading it “which is the contract between the application owner And the user” and to ensure the “permission clauses” requested by the application on its data and not to grant the application any permissions that are not necessary for its work.

According to Al-Shali, the authority grants information security companies a reliability that qualifies them to provide information security services to the private sector directly and to the telecommunications sectors and private banks under the supervision and participation of the authority. Security risks and vulnerabilities, penetration testing services, lost data recovery and security code review.

Al-Shelly indicated that one of the licenses granted by the Commission is a registered license for domain names under the Syrian upper domain in accordance with the list of licensing provisions for the “registration of names under the Syrian upper domain name” service and the general conditions for that. In the public sector, and ensuring that they meet the requirements of information security, in accordance with the Regulations on Controls and Regulations for Information Systems.

Shelly pointed out that one of the basic licenses that the authority is working to grant is a license for a sub-certification authority in order to provide a special electronic certification service provider that grants digital certificates to individuals and the business sector in Syria, while the authority grants digital certificates to government sector employees in their functional capacities, which contributes to ensuring reliability. And confidentiality in electronic transactions. The Directorate also grants permission to sell SSL certificates, which ensures the security of online transactions and maintains the privacy and security of customer information.

 Nour Youssef

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Source: sena

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