Draft of the Cybersecurity Strategy of Ukraine (2021-2025)
(Unofficial English translation)
SECURE CYBERSPACE - THE GUARANTEE OF SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE
Section 1. CYBERSECURITY: A GLOBAL CONTEXT
The Cybersecurity Strategy of Ukraine defines the priorities, goals and objectives of ensuring
the cybersecurity of Ukraine with the purpose of forming the conditions for the safe
operation of cyberspace, its use in the interests of the individual, society and the state.
Cybersecurity is one of the priorities of the National Security system of Ukraine. This priority
will be implemented by strengthening the capacity of the National Cybersecurity System to
counter cyber threats in today's security environment.
Forming the new Cybersecurity Strategy of Ukraine, we take into account world trends in
the global cyber environment as factors influencing the development of the national
cybersecurity ecosystem.
The XXI century is marked by the active formation of the sixth technological domain (bio-,
nano-, info-, cognotechnologies, their convergence) and the risks faced by civilisation due to
the introduction of new technologies, including their use in cyberspace.
The role of cyber threats in the spectrum of threats to national security is growing, and this
trend will intensify as information technology develops and converges with artificial
intelligence technologies in the next decade. The growth of such influence on the
functioning of management structures, both national and transnational, forms a completely
new security situation with the challenges of a new technological level. There is a division of
spheres of influence in cyberspace between the world's centers of power, and their desire
to ensure the realization of their own geopolitical interests is growing.
Cyberspace, along with other physical domains, is recognized as one of the possible military
operating domains, so the state's ability to protect national interests in it is seen as an
important component of cybersecurity. The trend of creating a new kind of forces - cyber
forces, which aims not only to protect critical information infrastructure from cyber attacks,
but also to conduct preventive offensive operations in cyberspace, aimed at destroying
computer networks and information systems of the enemy forces, as well as withdrawal
from system of critical enemy objects by destroying the information systems that control
such objects.
At the same time, the combination of traditional and non-traditional strategies and tactics
with the use of digital information technologies is increasingly used. In particular, the
Russian Federation is actively implementing the concept of information confrontation,
based on the symbiosis of hostilities in cyberspace and information operations, the