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State Special Communications Service to propose new cybersecurity standards by 2022
KYIV. Aug 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection is developing new cybersecurity standards for objects of critical information infrastructure of the state, according to the authority’s website.
According to Deputy Head of the State Special Communications Service Viktor Zhora, since virtually all information about Ukrainians is stored in the electronic registers of various authorities, the Service is actively working to ensure the protection of the relevant databases.
“These are all objects of critical information infrastructure, which should be included in a single register, which is now being created by the State Special Communications Service. We have already formed requirements for the protection systems of such objects and by the end of the year we will offer new security standards. Instead of the normative documents of the Ukrainian information technical protection system in 1999 – the so-called KSZI – we will offer new adequate standards based on the best international practices,” he said.
Zhora also said that the processes of digitalization and strengthening of cybersecurity should take place in parallel.
“Strengthening cybersecurity is an integral and indispensable companion of digitalization. Ukraine has its own landscape of threats. Our state is regularly subjected to massive cyber attacks. This is a component of hybrid aggression that has been against our state since 2014,” he said.
Zhora also added that every week, on average, about 50,000 attacks on Ukrainian resources, which are in the area of responsibility of the State Special Communications Service, are being blocked.
