On May 30, 2024, a cluster meeting took place, organized by the National Cybersecurity Coordination Center and the National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine, together with CRDF Global in Ukraine and with the support of the U.S. Department of State. The speakers included representatives of the Office of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, a Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, the Embassy of Estonia in Ukraine, CyberLab Computer Forensics Laboratory, the Institute of Cyber Warfare Research, and the NGO Cyber Academy.
The international community was represented by Lauri Lüht, Cyber Attaché at the Embassy of Estonia, and Dragoș-Gabriel Dima, Senior Cybersecurity Adviser at EUAM Ukraine.
The 27th cluster meeting was dedicated to the topic “Defining and Integrating Key Cybersecurity Concepts into the Legal and Regulatory Framework of Ukraine and the World.”
The discussion focused on the following issues:
- war crimes in cyberspace: current legal approaches and gaps;
- international mechanisms for deterring and responding to military operations in cyberspace;
- key needs and solutions in cybersecurity education and science.
CyberLab CEO Serhii Denysenko spoke in the third session of the cluster, which addressed the state of cybersecurity education and science. His presentation was titled “Overview of Key Needs and Solutions in Cybersecurity Education and Science in the Context of Incident Response.”
The presentation covered the following topics:
- The legal and regulatory framework for responding to incidents (cybercrimes): challenges and solutions.
- The current state of training for information security (cybersecurity) incident response specialists and experts in evidence analysis and examination.
- Challenges in training forensic experts in computer forensics and electronic communications examination.
- The use of appropriate hardware and software in training incident response specialists and experts in evidence analysis and examination: practical aspects.
In conclusion, he provided a detailed review of current challenges in cybersecurity education and proposed mechanisms for addressing them and developing this area further.
Regular cluster meetings allow participants to raise pressing cybersecurity issues in Ukraine and engage partners to support and address the key needs of the Ukrainian cyber community.
