Strengthening the national digital sovereignty of Iran is being implemented in difficult geopolitical environment amid constant threats of global nature to information security that need to be addressed. Due to the forced international isolation of the country for over forty years, the domestic solutions for protecting the information security infrastructure tend to be outdated. Thus, Iran must develop its own functional software and hardware solutions to increase the resilience of its own infrastructure to cyberattacks. Nowadays, Russia has achieved complete self-sufficiency in key areas, while Russian technology companies have experience working in Asian countries. As a result, Russia can offer Iran both domestic cybersecurity solutions and other technologies, in microelectronics. Russian cooperation with Iran in the field of technology is of great importance in terms of entering the “friendly” market amid the new world order formation and considering a potentially quick monetization in the fastgrowing market.
Iran’s information security, Russian cybersecurity solutions, Russian- Iranian technological cooperation.