Documentolog News #8 (25.05.2020 - 01.06.2020)

? +182 new clients, including LLP "Republican Educational Center", LLP "Construction Company 'AlmatyStroy'", NGO "Table Tennis Federation of the Republic of Kazakhstan", LLP "Kazakhstan Metal Structures Plant" and others. A total of 10,596 organizations and 6,981 government agencies already! Want to exchange documents and sign contracts with them in a legally significant electronic form? Register at doculite.kz;

? +3 companies have connected to correspondence with government agencies. A total of 647 enterprises have transitioned to electronic interaction with government agencies;

? 24,767 documents have been sent electronically, of which 11,642 to government agencies;

? 6,191,750 tenge - the minimum savings of our clients on courier services;

? 598 requests were received from current clients through the Documentolog Client Personal Account, of which 473 (79%) were completed on time, additional information is awaited for 42 requests, 5 requests were forwarded to the development department, and 78 requests are still in progress;

? 4.86 - the average rating for request fulfillment given by our clients in the Personal Account over the past week;

? A total of ❗️1,334 information security incidents were recorded. Of these:

- 42 hacking attempts,

- 1,292 events of analysis and vulnerability search in our network.

All actions of the attackers were successfully prevented;

? The availability level of the Documentolog system over the past week was 99.91%;

?Documentolog has officially entered the register of trusted software and electronic industry products of the Republic of Kazakhstan along with six other IT solutions. Being in the register gives manufacturers a priority right to participate in public procurement through a preliminary qualification selection process. The priority procurement order for solutions included in the register was defined by amendments made in 2019 to the legislation on public procurement;

?We held an online webinar titled "How to independently deploy the Documentolog EDM with full functionality online". During the webinar, we answered questions such as "Where to start the process of creating your own electronic document management system?", "What system configurations are available? How to choose the configuration that suits you best?", "What additional capabilities does the system offer when creating the system online?", "What is SLA for Documentolog EDM?" - and others;

?We conducted an online broadcast featuring Kanafin Baizhan and Kwan Vyacheslav, during which we announced the upcoming launch of the Documentolog partner program and shared some details about its conditions;

? We have translated the Documentolog.kz website into the state language. Now all information about the company and Documentolog solutions is available to visitors in Kazakh;

? IT companies contributed 87 billion tenge to the budget of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2019. Moreover, 80% of all contributions were made by just 245 companies;

?Uberization of parcel delivery: a new service from Kazpost. Kazpost plans to launch a pilot project in June for delivering parcels to customers' doors by freelancers. Thanks to the new service, customers will be able to receive their parcels faster. Any resident of the country can become a courier. They will need to connect to Kazpost's infrastructure and check for available parcels that need to be delivered to specific clients;

? Do you conduct checks on your employees' knowledge of information security? For example, in a check of GitLab employees, every fifth employee fell for a phishing email. This once again confirms that the biggest vulnerability in information security has always been and remains the human factor;

?A record for internet access speed has been set using an optical chip. A group of researchers from Monash University in Australia, as well as Swinburne University and RMIT University, achieved a record internet connection speed of 44.2 Tb/s using a single optical chip. At this speed, for example, users can download 1,000 HD movies in a fraction of a second;

?Beeline and Kcell have agreed: the mobile operators will jointly use and build a communication network;

?Apple paid a hacker $100,000 for discovering a 0-day vulnerability in the "Sign in with Apple" authorization system. The vulnerability is indeed significant. As the hacker demonstrated, to authorize in someone else's account, only the victim's email identifier is needed, and the exploit is very simple. The bug can lead to complete takeover of other accounts on third-party platforms that have the "Sign in with Apple" button (Spotify, Dropbox, etc.), regardless of whether the person uses an Apple email or not. Another case proving that absolutely secure systems do not exist;

?The German government has urged iOS users to update their mail application due to vulnerabilities in older versions. The Federal Office for Cybersecurity of Germany (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in Informationstechnik, BSI) has called on iOS users to immediately update to iOS version 13.5, which fixed vulnerabilities in the "Mail" application that allowed remote access to the device;

? Forbes in the article "Top 5 Digital Transformation Trends In Education For 2020" explores issues of digital transformation in education that are at the forefront of relevance.

That's all for now. We wish everyone a productive week! Take care of yourselves!