St. Petersburg Infrastructure Companies to Invest More Than 900 Million Rubles in Cybersecurity
Three infrastructure companies in St. Petersburg are strengthening their cyber defenses. TEK SPb, Vodokanal and the operator of the Safe City system have announced tenders to upgrade information security systems, with a combined value of more than 900 million rubles.
The largest contract will go to TEK SPb (St. Petersburg Fuel and Energy Complex), which will spend 526.3 million rubles ($6.2 million) on hardware and software systems. The upgrades will protect 43 facilities, with the work scheduled for completion by the end of July 2027.
Vodokanal has opted not to rebuild its defenses from scratch but to extend the systems already in operation. The company will spend about 375 million rubles ($4.4 million) on three separate five-year contracts covering monitoring and protection against unauthorized access.
The third contract went to the Safe City operator. The Committee on Informatization is expanding its license for a privileged-user management system, increasing the number of monitored sessions to 81.
The threats facing such infrastructure come not only from direct attacks, said Igor Bederov, chairman of the Council for Countering Technological Offenses of the National Security Business Council of Russia. In his view, threats through contractors and supply chains, AI-powered phishing, and vulnerabilities in the software itself are no less serious.
