What will be the effect of increasing fines?

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These results were shown by a survey conducted by OOO SearchInform. Representatives of 170 companies took part in it.

44% of respondents expressed confidence that toughening penalties for data leaks will accomplish the task and will lead to companies starting to implement protection measures bulgaria whatsapp number database more actively. A third of organizations evaluate the initiative negatively and note that toughening penalties for incidents related to personal data leaks will negatively affect business. Companies are afraid of an excessive number of inspections and the application of the same fines to businesses of different sizes. 23% of respondents said that fines will not change the situation with personal data leaks.

Tightening the penalties for those responsible for leaks of personal data has been actively discussed among legislators for almost two years. At the beginning of 2024, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill providing for turnover fines with a maximum threshold of 3% of turnover.


Deputy CEO of the Garda Group of Companies Rustem Khairutdinov believes that such a high rate of supporters of tough measures is due to the fact that the respondents were dominated by those who will not be held accountable for possible violations: "Judging by the large number of supporters of tough measures and taking into account that the study does not describe the audience profile, 44% of those who support the introduction of turnover fines include those who do not bear direct financial responsibility. These could be specialists who, due to the threat of fines, could potentially receive additional funding for projects. If the survey had been conducted among businessmen or officials, when the former literally pay out of their own pockets, and the latter - from budget funds, then there would most likely have been fewer supporters of such a ruble punishment."

Deputy General Director of Atom Security LLC (part of SKB Kontur Group) Yuri Drachenin believes that the assessment obtained during the study is overstated: “It can be assumed that there are many more personal data operators who are against various bans than the 56% (23% and 33% “negative” and “neutral”, respectively), as follows from the survey data. Rather, those who would not like to see fines for personal data leaks change are 70-80 percent.”

Leading cybersecurity expert and head of the IT department of First Bit LLC Maxim Gorin believes that the situation will begin to noticeably improve after the first precedents of applying the new rules: "I consider the published data to be relevant. As for the implementation of protection tools, everything depends on the level of responsibility of the personal data operator and the cost of implementing protection tools. For small companies, it may be more profitable not to collect and process PDn or to find a specialized company that provides such services and transfer responsibility for their processing to it. I am sure that some companies that do not use protection tools and cannot assess the risks associated with violating the law will begin to do so immediately after the first public cases with the consequences of new sanctions for other companies appear."

Viktor Ryzhkov, Head of Business Development for Data Protection at Positive Technologies, called the bill on turnover fines one of the most hotly debated topics in the Russian information security community: "We see that companies still do not understand how, for example, to assess the criticality of the data they store, or how their attempts to avoid an unacceptable event will be assessed if the data leaks anyway. Nevertheless, we can say with complete confidence that many companies have paid attention to the problem of data security stored in their infrastructure - our observations coincide with the results of the SearchInform survey. We also consider relevant indicators that reflect the current situation on the security market."