UKRAINE Cyber Defence NATO Trust Fund June 2016 Lead Nation Milestones • • Romania Other Contributors • Albania Estonia Turkey United States Hungary Italy Portugal • • • • 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 • • • 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). 1 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 0938-16 NATO Graphics & Printing 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.

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