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Protection of State Secrets
The system for protecting state secrets is a set of bodies for protecting state secrets, the means and methods they use to protect information constituting state secrets and their carriers, as well as measures taken for these purposes.
The bodies for the protection of state secrets include:
- authorized state body for the protection of state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- The National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan and its bodies;
- state bodies and organizations, their structural units for the protection of state secrets.
They ensure the protection of information constituting state secrets, in accordance with the tasks assigned to them and within the limits of their competence. Responsibility for organizing the protection of information constituting state secrets in state bodies and organizations rests with their leaders. Depending on the amount of work using information constituting state secrets, the heads of state bodies and organizations create structural divisions for the protection of state secrets, the functions of which are determined by these managers, taking into account the specifics of the work they carry out in accordance with the normative legal acts approved by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Protection of state secrets is one of the main activities of a state body and organization.
The National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan and its bodies:
1) develop and implement measures for counterintelligence protection of information constituting state secrets in state bodies and organizations, and also control their activities in this area;
1-1) coordinates and controls the work to ensure the secrecy regime in state bodies and organizations;
1-2) coordinates and monitors the activities of bodies for the protection of state secrets in the interests of the development and implementation of normative and methodological acts for the protection of state secrets;
1-3) controls the implementation in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the system of legal, administrative, economic, technical, software and cryptographic measures to protect state secrets;
2) carry out a special check of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, drawn up (reissued) for admission to information constituting state secrets;
3) carry out licensing of types of activities in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on permits and notifications;
4) organize certification of technical, including cryptographic, means of protecting information constituting state secrets;
5) issue, in accordance with the established procedure, permits for work using information constituting state secrets;
5-1) determine the procedure for the creation, acquisition, accumulation, formation, registration, storage, processing, destruction, use, transfer, protection of electronic information resources containing information constituting state secrets;
5-2) determine the procedure for the creation, operation, maintenance, development, integration, termination of operation and protection of information systems in a secure design, classified as state secrets;
5-3) determine the procedure for collecting, processing, storing, transferring, searching, distributing, using, protecting, registering and destroying electronic documents and other data containing information constituting state secrets using secure information systems classified as state secrets;
5-4) determine the procedure for the creation, accreditation and termination of the activities of a special certification center;
6) identify, suppress, disclose and investigate crimes related to violation of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on state secrets;
7) carry out other functions provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
