MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. It will be important for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump to discuss cyber security issues at their meeting scheduled to be held in Helsinki on July 16, Andrei Bystritsky, the Chairman of the Board of the Valdai International Discussion Club’s Development and Support Foundation, told TASS on Monday.
"We are facing a situation when our various activities - including defense, information, trade and cultural ones - take place in a virtual digital world. The situation requires some regulation," the expert said.
Bystritsky mentioned several most important aspects of cyber security. "This particularly includes defense security because weapons are operated through digital devices and the process is becoming more and more complex. This can also be said about banking activities, the management of big cities, energy industry, as well as information and communications," he added.
In this regard, the Russian expert touched upon the reliability of information. "It has never been so hard to tell the truth from lies, so all the talk about fake news and the post-truth era comes as no surprise," Bystritsky said, adding that "people, including responsible politicians, make decisions based on the reliability of the information they receive."
"Our digital world system is highly vulnerable to the attacks of those who are inclined to act in an aggressive, barbaric way. Radical terrorists are very much willing to enter this sphere," he noted.
Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier that global cyber security issues could be put on the Russian-US summit’s agenda.