Official: Iran Makes 200 New Cyber Defense Products

“We have managed to make nearly 200 new defensive products in the cyber space by the knowledge-based firms and all these products have successfully passed the hard tests in the field of cyber defense,” General Jalali said.

Elsewhere, he added that Iranian experts have also managed to use fully home-made systems in the infrastructures of the energy fields, including gas dispatching system.

In relevant remarks last month, General Jalali underlined his country’s pioneering role in developing cyber defense, adding that North Korea and Russia had demanded training by Iranian experts in area of civil defense.

“I went to North Korea and I think that North Korea is the pole of the world’s civil defense and they have worked a lot in this field. When we wanted to ink an agreement, they requested us to provide training. I also went to Russia and we signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) there and one of its paragraphs also pertained to their request for training,” General Jalali said in an interview with the state TV.

He added that Iran brought about “cyber defense” for the first time in the world and developed cyber defense 8 years ago, even before the US, when the Americans were only after “cyber security”.

General Jalali had warned after the 2015 nuclear deal that the country was facing new types of threats to its infrastructural and industrial centers after agreement with the world powers.

“We should renew our methods to understand threats after (implementing) the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) comes into force since threats will change in nature after the JCPOA,” Jalali said, addressing a press conference in Tehran.

He warned that new areas would be targeted by enemy spying and intelligence gathering operations following the JCPOA, including spying on infrastructures and industries, and said a center needs to be launched “to assess the US measures during the implementation of the JCPOA so that we can study and monitor all actions, behaviors and remarks of the Americans”.

He also warned of suspicious moves that could be aimed at an economic war on Iran, and said fighting back against such a war would be possible only through self-sufficiency and agricultural independence.

Elsewhere, Jalali referred to Iran’s exchange of intelligence on cyber threats with other countries, and said “we can have interactions with such aligned states as Russia, China and India, in area of cyber space” and cyber security.

He, meantime, underlined that cyber attacks against the country in the past two years had all failed due to the measures taken by the Civil Defense Organization.