Azerbaijan continues to further improve its position in the information and communication development in the region and throughout the world.

The recent decree on the facilitation of licensing procedures for entrepreneurship and encouraging business transparency in Azerbaijan is expected to positively affect every economic sphere, and the information and communication technologies sector is not an exception.

Azerbaijan is a leader in the protection of intellectual property in the South Caucasus, says the Azerbaijan Copyright Agency.

Israeli IT-companies are interested in expanding the country's presence and investment in the market of information and communication technologies in Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan and Serbia will establish a joint working group on cooperation in the information and communication technologies, the Communications and High Technologies Ministry said.

Azerbaijan is leading the region in fixed broadband Internet, says a report from the International Telecommunication Union.

Information and communication services worth 1.077 billion manats ($1,027 billion )were rendered to Azerbaijan's population and organizations in first eight months of 2015.

Azerbaijani internet users will soon be protected from DDoS-attacks, as a commercial service for the issue from Azerbaijan's primary provider, Delta Telecom, will be put into operation by late September-early October.

The Electronic government portal in Azerbaijan now features a function for convenient online payment.

The number of cyber threats has reduced in Azerbaijan, as the number of cyber security-related requests from state structures of Azerbaijan dropped to 104 in August, the Cyber Security Center reports.