Ukrainian Cyber Security community concerns with USAID cyber project implementation

Ukrainian Cyber Security community concerns with USAID cyber project implementation

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Автор: Kostiantyn Korsun

Greetings USAID,
 
We are representatives of Ukrainian Cyber Security community, and we have to comment USAID project ‘Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine Activity’, with a budget of $38 million. 
 https://tinyurl.com/yyuh8lob
 
 According to Vice-Prime-Minister of Ukraine Mr Mykhailo Fedorov, the main beneficiary of the Project is assigned the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine: 
https://cutt.ly/Ta84IXI
 
Many cybersec experts here in Ukraine believe that Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine is not a proper beneficiary for cybersecurity projects.
 This Ministry has no cybersecurity experts onboard; their officials and employees are not professionals in cybersecurity and understand very few in this very specific area. 
 The Ministry is not loyal to local cybersec community, ignoring the community’s suggestions on incorrect state policy related to cybersecurity.
In November 2019 Vice-Prime-Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation Mr M. Fedorov stated the following: ‘I think that role of cybersecurity is a bit overstated’: https://cutt.ly/ua4ue3T
Quotation: ‘Я думаю, что роль кибербезопасности немного преувеличена.’
 
Concerning the Project’s team tailored by DAI Global LLC: at least one partner SocialBoost is far from cybersecurity.
We never heard on this company as a local marketplace’s CyberSec player. They have no CyberSec project in their portfolio: http://socialboost.com.ua
Even their web site is not protected by https as a primitive protection practice.
 
Being cybersecurity professionals, we realize how important to help our country to protect itself in cyber, in particular from Russia and especially in critical infrastructure. And we thank US Government for this support. 
 
However, without close cooperation between community, government, private sector, academia, and civil society, such support unlikely to be effective in Ukraine. And we doubt that the current implementation team of the project ‘Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine Activity’ will favour productive cooperation on this matter and would create innovative, high quality, effective partnerships.
 
So, in order to make Ukraine more protected from cyber threats, on behalf of Ukrainian Cyber Security Community we call USAID to revise USAID project’s ‘Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine Activity’ main beneficiary and implementation partners.
 
Best regards,

Kostiantyn Korsun, 
Berezha Security, Co-Owner and CEO
NGO Ukrainian Information Security Group, co-founder, Councilor
ex-Head and co-founder of CERT-UA
ex-Deputy Head of e-crime division at Security Service of Ukraine, retired colonel
Cybersecurity blogger and public activist
Speaker at various CyberSec Conferences
20 year of experience in cybersecurity, 26 years in security.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kostiantyn-korsun-58012b1b/
https://www.facebook.com/kostiantyn.korsun
email: kos.korsun@gmail.com
 
Andriy Baranovich aka Sean Brian Townsend,
NGO Ukrainian Cyber Alliance, co-founder
Cybersecurity blogger and public activist
Speaker at various CyberSec Conferences
20 years of experience in programming, telco and security
https://ua.linkedin.com/in/andrey-baranovich-29023855
https://www.facebook.com/ruheight
ruheight@gmail.com
 
Artem Karpynskyi aka Tim Karpinsky
NGO Ukrainian Cyber Alliance, Co-founder and director of operations
NGO Ukrainian Information Security Group, co-founder, Councilor
NoNameCon practical cybersecurity conference founder
Hacktivist, cybersecurity blogger
Speaker at various CyberSec Conferences
15 years of experience in cybersecurity
ping@cyber.org.ua
https://www.facebook.com/tim.karpinsky



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