Cybersecurity of Ukraine: analysis of the current situation

Abstract

Given the rapid growth of cyber-risks and cyber-threats, monitoring the current state of our country's cybersecurity, highlighting the main problems of building a national cyber defense system and identifying ways to solve them are important. It requires both an analysis of steps already implemented to protect computer and telecommunication networks against cyberattacks, as well as the identification of the necessary steps to create conditions for the safe functioning of cyberspace. The study shows significant political, economic and social efforts to enhance cyber-resilience that the state is making to develop national cybersecurity capabilities. Effective cybersecurity needs to be addressed comprehensively and requires coordinated actions at national, regional, and international levels to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from incidents by government, the private sector, and civil society. Political, scientific, technical, organizational and educational issues are identified. It is necessary to solve them in the framework of complex counteraction to cyber threats in order to respond quickly to the dynamic changes occurring in cyberspace. More efforts should be made to establish publicprivate partnerships, to develop and implement a mechanism for the exchange of information between public authorities, the private sector and citizens regarding threats to the critical information infrastructure. Ukraine should step up its participation in the organization of joint international cyber-capacity building projects in order to coordinate actions and find new ways in strengthening cybersecurity and protection of critical information infrastructures in response to new trends in the global movement towards the digital economy and information society.