Tokayev appoints new head of information resources protection department

BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 27.
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed Nurbolat
Magzumov as Head of the Information Resources Protection Department
of the Presidential Administration, according to the presidential
press service.

By a separate order, Yerzhan Seitkulov was relieved
of the position.

Seitkulov had headed the department since August 1,
2024. Previously, he served as Deputy Head of the Information
Technology and Information Resources Protection Department of the
Presidential Administration from November to December 2023, and
then as its head until August 2024.

From 2012 to 2022, he was Director of the Research
Institute of Information Security and Cryptology at L.N. Gumilyov
Eurasian National University. He also served as Director of the
Engineering and Technical Center of the Presidential
Administration’s Office of Affairs from August 2022 to November
2023.

Seitkulov graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and
Mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2001 and
completed a research internship at the State University of New
York, specializing in information protection methods and systems
and information security. In 2006, he earned a Candidate of
Physical and Mathematical Sciences degree for research on
mathematical methods of information protection in computing
systems.