UKRAINE
Cyber Defence
NATO Trust Fund
June 2016
Lead Nation
Milestones
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Romania
Other Contributors
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Albania
Estonia
Turkey
United States
Hungary
Italy
Portugal
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December 2014 – The Trust Fund is declared operational.
First half of 2015 – preparation of the implementation
framework and collection of contributions.
23 July 2015 - the Lead Nation and Ukraine signed the
Implementation Agreement of the Trust Fund.
July 2015 - five training courses delivered by Estonia to
the Ukrainian side, as in-kind contribution.
November 2015 – agreement on the Ukrainian
institutions recipient of the Trust Fund equipments.
May 2016 - architecture of the Cyber Defence solution
offered under the Trust Fund was finalized; the final
list of equipments and their technical specifications
was agreed.
June 2016 - The Executing Agent has initiated the
acquisition process.
Financial information
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The project also has a training and advisory dimension with
an adaptive approach that is based on the interests of both
Allies and Ukraine and derived from the requirements of
Ukraine’s security and defence sector institutions.
This approach ensures concrete and relevant results in
the short term while remaining scalable according to the
availability of funds and flexible to enable adaptation to
relevant lessons identified in the course of the TF CD’s
implementation.
The Trust Fund also takes into account the Partnership
Goals on cyber defence that were agreed by the Allies and
Ukraine within the 2012 Partnership for Peace Planning and
Review Process (PARP).
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The Lead Nation is Romania, acting through the Romanian
Intelligence Service.
Acting through RASIROM R.A., a Romanian state-owned
company with a rich experience in cyber defence, as
the Executing Agent, Romania is also responsible for the
project’s implementation.
The NATO-IS Office of Financial Control acts as Treasurer for
the project. A special account administered by the NATO-IS
Office of Financial Control has been opened for the project.
Further than the contributions pledged so far by 8
contributing nations, the Trust Fund seeks further direct
financial support.
The cost of the core project has been evaluated by the
Lead Nation at 560,000 EUR. The programme will be scaled
depending on the contributions received and may be extended
if deemed appropriate.
Cyber Security Incident Response Team
For further information
Catalin Constantin Ionita
Emerging Security Challenges Division, NATO HQ
Tel: +32 2 707 3957, ionita.constantin@nato.hq.int
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The Trust Fund on Cyber Defence for Ukraine aims to provide
Ukraine with the necessary support to develop its strictly
defensive, CSIRT1-type technical capabilities, including
laboratories to investigate cyber security incidents.
The core project is estimated at 560,000 EUR.
Current contributions are at 965, 000 EUR, plus in-kind
contributions offered by Estonia and the USA.
Project to be scaled depending on contributions.