New official tariffs for state monopoly services in informatization and cybersecurity will take effect in Kazakhstan on October 1, 2026. The corresponding order was signed by Yermek Sagimbayev, Chairman of the National Security Committee, in coordination with the Agency for Protection and Development of Competition and the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, according to infohub.kz.
The document sets out how much the state and developers will pay for mandatory software inspections, attack monitoring, and protection of government digital systems.
The order updates the price list for mandatory security procedures for all government information systems, e-government services, and the country's critical infrastructure. Inspections of applications for vulnerabilities, responses to hacker incidents, protection of internet traffic, and checks of systems storing personal data of Kazakh citizens will now be charged at new fixed rates.
The most expensive service is technical support for Kazakhstan's centralized telecommunications network management system, valued at 3.04 billion tenge. Cross-sector coordination for the protection of e-government, Kaznet, and critical facilities will cost 2.16 billion tenge, while the direct detection, suppression, and investigation of cyber threats at eGov facilities will cost 1.41 billion tenge. Support for the unified internet gateway and eGov email is priced at 394 million tenge.
For developers of government software, specific rates have been set: analysis of source code for vulnerabilities costs 32,998 tenge per megabyte, full testing of security functions for one system costs 3.51 million tenge, and load testing costs 1.05 million tenge.
Specialist assistance for a single hacker incident at a government facility will cost 4.41 million tenge, review of an eGov project at the technical specification stage will cost 387,600 tenge, and automated scanning of personal data protection will cost 613,800 tenge per facility. All prices exclude value-added tax.