FSB Licences

1. Development, manufacture, sale and acquisition for resale of special technical means intended for covert acquisition of information.
2. Identification of electronic devices intended for covert acquisition of information (except where performed solely for the organization’s own needs).
3. Activities involving encryption (cryptographic) tools — development, manufacture and distribution; protected information systems and telecommunications systems; encryption-related work and services; installation, setup, commissioning, repair and maintenance of cryptographic information-protection tools. The appendix to Government Resolution No. 313 contains 28 items.
4. Work involving information constituting a state secret.
5. Measures and/or services for protection of state secrets.
6. Creation of information-protection tools intended to protect information constituting a state secret.

State secrets under Government Resolution No. 333 and Article 27 of Law of the Russian Federation No. 5485-1:

• compliance with regulatory requirements for protection of state secrets;
• a state-secret protection unit within the organizational structure and specially trained employees holding the relevant form of security clearance;
• certified information-protection tools;
• attested premises and facilities for work with information constituting a state secret.

Encryption and cryptographic tools under Government Resolution No. 313:

• qualified personnel with specialist training in information security or cryptography;
• premises and equipment held on a lawful basis and compliant with applicable requirements;
• regulatory, technical and operating documentation for cryptographic information-protection tools and a production quality-control system.

• Federal Law No. 99-FZ; Law of the Russian Federation No. 5485-1 of 21 July 1993 “On State Secrets”.
• Special technical means — Government Resolution No. 287 of 12 April 2012.
• Identification of electronic devices — Government Resolution No. 314 of 16 April 2012.
• Encryption and cryptographic tools — Government Resolution No. 313 of 16 April 2012.
• State secrets — Government Resolution No. 333 of 15 April 1995.

• Licences involving state secrets are fixed-term, for up to 5 years.
• Licences for cryptographic activities, special technical means and identification of covert devices are indefinite.

No more than 45 business days.

Established by the Tax Code of the Russian Federation.

Note: development and manufacture of tools for protecting confidential information other than state secrets is licensed by FSTEC of Russia under Government Resolution No. 171. The FSB issues such a licence only for tools installed at facilities of the highest state authorities.