BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 19. Kazakhstan's
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed Arman Abdrasilov as
head of the Situation Center of the Office of the Security Council
and Azamat Dyusembekov as head of the Law Enforcement System
Department of the Office, according to the presidential
administration.


Abdrasilov has extensive experience in information technology,
cybersecurity, and digital transformation.


According to Kazakhstan's Paragraph information system, from
2001 to May 2002, he worked as an engineer at the Institute of
Mathematics and Mechanics at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.
From May 2002 to June 2012, he was an engineer at a scientific and
technical center.


From 2013 to August 2020, he was a co-founder, visionary, and
government relations director at the Center for Analysis and
Investigation of Cyber Attacks group of companies. In 2018-2019, he
worked in compliance at Facebook App in the United States.


From August 2020 to October 2022, Abdrasilov served as chairman
of the board of the national information and communications holding
company Zerde.


From November 2022 to February 2025, he was a managing partner
at Brain Trust, focusing on capital management and digital
transformation consulting. During the same period, he served as a
senior adviser on IT development and cybersecurity in Central Asia
at Canada's SecDev Foundation.


From February to August 2025, he served as deputy head of the
Security Council's Department of Current Security Issues. Since
August 8, 2025, he has headed the Security Council's Situation
Center.


Abdrasilov has also held a number of other positions, including
membership in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for
Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) bureau on IT infrastructure
development and data management in Central Asia.


He worked as an IT and cybersecurity consultant for the Civil
Initiative on Internet Policy public foundation in Kyrgyzstan and
served on the IT committee of Kazakhstan's National Chamber of
Entrepreneurs Atameken.







He has also worked as an international consultant on government
digitalization in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and served
on the boards of several organizations, including the State
Technical Service, National Information Technologies,
QazInnovations, Astana Hub and Astana IT University.


Abdrasilov has been a member of public councils under several
Kazakh ministries and an expert at the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).


Azamat Dyusembekov has extensive experience in Kazakhstan's
prosecution system and the Security Council's law enforcement
structures.


He worked in the prosecution authorities, including as head of a
department at the Karaganda Region Prosecutor's Office and in
various departmental and service leadership positions at the
Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan.


From 2018 through 2019, he served as first deputy prosecutor of
Aktobe Region.


From 2019 through 2022, he was deputy head of the Security
Council's Law Enforcement System Department.


From August 2022 through September 1, 2023, he headed the Law
Enforcement System Department of the Security Council under the
Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan.