Vektor JSC holds two licenses administered by the Russian Ministry of Industry and trade, as well as a license administered by the FSB. The two licenses administered by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade serve for the “development, production, testing, installation, maintenance, disposal and sale of weapons and military equipment”. The FSB license, in turn, is issued to IT companies that develop encryption and cryptography technology, information systems, and telecommunication systems for the Russian intelligence services, as well as IT companies that develop “personal database management systems” for the Russian security services (i.e. tools specifically designed to store, retrieve, and manage large amounts of data obtained through, for example, social media scraping or other intelligence gathering practices).
Therefore, Vektor JSC constitutes an entity operating in the Russian IT-sector with a license administered by the FSB Center for Licensing, Certification, and Protection of State Secrets and a “weapons and military equipment” license administered by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.