A/65/154 procedures for achieving information protection requirements for the individual components of a comprehensive information protection system depending on the variety of information and communication technology involved, the ultimate purpose, the field of use and the type of information processed. 17. Ukraine has also created its own national system of criteria for assessing the security of information technologies. The system is based on a set of regulatory instruments on protecting information in information and telecommunications systems from unauthorized access; these instruments have been harmonized with similar instruments of European Union countries and with international standards, in particular standard 15408 of the International Organization for Standardization/ International Electrotechnical Commission. 18. In addition, a national system of organizational and technical measures is being established in Ukraine with a view to preventing unauthorized acts against the information and telecommunications systems of the State authorities, law enforcement, customs and tax authorities, credit and financial institutions and others, in particular attempts to interfere with their work through the Internet. 19. As specified in article 16, paragraphs 10 and 11, of the Act on the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection, and in order to improve coordination between State agencies for the detection of threats to information in information and telecommunications systems, to deal with the consequences of implementation of such threats and to organize international cooperation in such matters, the appropriate Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has been created within the Service and is operational. 20. Reflecting the global trend towards networks of rapid reaction facilities, CERT responds to computer emergencies. International coordination of the activities of such facilities is provided by the international Forum for Incident Response Security Teams (FIRST), a forum for teams responding to security incidents. 21. On 13 July 2009, CERT-UA (www.cert.gov.ua) became a full member of FIRST. 22. Among its activities for 2009, CERT-UA processed 461 reports from CERTs in 30 countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, United States of America) of unauthorized acts in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet (distribution of harmful software, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and other attempts to commit unauthorized acts). 23. It should be added that Ukraine has created a legal and regulatory framework and made efforts to ensure cooperation between the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection and the law enforcement agencies with a view to implementing measures to safeguard the security of State information resources in information and telecommunications systems and improving the effectiveness of the system for responding to unauthorized acts against those information resources. 24. Thus, in Ukraine, information can now be protected at all stages of the establishment of information and telecommunications systems and the 10-45842 13