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     CYBERSECURITY FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN UKRAINE ACTIVITY

USAID Project Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine Activity

Project number: G0663

Priority: Capacity development in higher education

Project duration: July, 2022 – September, 2024

Cherkasy State Technological University has joined the USAID Cybersecurity of Ukraine's Critical Infrastructure Project initiative, which was launched in July 2022. The initiative focuses on improving higher education in cybersecurity, including training vectors for cybersecurity professionals and academic staff, advanced training for teachers, modernisation of educational programmes under international standards, and opening modern laboratories at the university. Upon completing the training, the department teachers passed the final Security Audit and Risk Management and Cloud Cyber Security assignments. Under the Project, 33 licences were obtained to work on the world-famous RangeForce platform, which is based on real-life cases, allowing participants to gain practical skills for use in real-life cybersecurity scenarios, perform real-life cybersecurity tasks such as vulnerability analysis, threat detection, incident response, and others. USAID's Ukraine Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Project works to reduce and potentially eliminate cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Ukraine's critical infrastructure sectors, as well as to develop new cybersecurity personnel, build talent capacity, and enhance Ukraine's ability to prepare for cyberattacks.

Project members

The company that distributes advanced security technologies is called “Catalisto.”

Florida International University International specialised cybersecurity company ‘Information Systems Security Partners’

The company ‘Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories’

Ukrainian technological public organisation ‘SocialBoost’

Strategic IT solutions company ‘Veterans First Initiative’

More about the project: https://cybilportal.org/projects/usaid-cybersecurity-for-critical-infrastructure-in-ukraine-activity/

Project coordinator from the university:

Ph.D., D.Sc., Volodymyr Palahin