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Kyiv international cyber resilience forum 2024
Resilience at the Cyber War

A multiformat discussion on strategies and tactics of addressing contemporary cyber threats, involving a wide range of politicians, experts, opinion leaders and international partners

The forum will be attended by representatives of the U.S. Department of State, NATO and EU member states

Forum Objectives

  • Accumulating practical Ukrainian experience of managing cyber threats
  • Identifying areas for improving cybersecurity and cyber resilience
  • Creating a professional national cybersecurity community
  • Engagement and collaboration with international partners on all the digital space security and stability matters
  • Showcasing resilience of the Ukrainian cybersecurity system and the potential for its development
Resistance

Agenda

07.02

Hall A

  • 9:00 – 10:00 | Registration and welcome coffee
  • 10:00 – 10:50 | Official opening

    Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

    Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister for Innovations, Development of Education, Science and Technology – Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

    Michael Dignam, CEO of CRDF Global

  • 10:50 – 11:50 | Keynote speakers

    Joanneke Balfoort, Director for Security and Defense policy, European External Action Service

    Juhan Lepassaar, Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

    Mart Noorma, Director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE)

    Nathaniel Fick, Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, U.S. Department of State

    Jen Easterly, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

  • 12:00 – 13:00 | Discussion 1: The Role of Cybersecurity in Modern Warfare: Ukraine's Experience and Lessons for the World

    Ievgen Vladimirov, Director, Cybersecurity Center at the National Academy of Security Service of Ukraine

    Serhii Demediuk, Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

    Illya Vityuk, Head of the Cybersecurity Department at the Security Service of Ukraine

    Jen Easterly, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

    Juhan Lepassaar, Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

  • 13:30 – 14:30 | Discussion 2: Cyber Warfare and International Law: Modern Approaches, Gaps, and Perspectives

    Andriy Paziuk, Professor of International Cyber Law, NCSCC

    Nataliya Tkachuk, Head of the Information Security and Cybersecurity Service of the NSDC of Ukraine Office, Secretary of the NCSCC

    Mart Noorma, Director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE)

    Aaron Brantly, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Director Tech4Humanity Lab

    Dmytro Verbytskyi, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine

    Ivan Pavlenko, Head of the Main Department of Radioelectronic and Cyber Warfare of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

  • 14:30 – 15:30 | Lunch
  • 15:30 – 16:30 | Discussion 3: Cyberdiplomacy - Synchronizing National Interests with Global Agenda on Cyberspace and Digital Policy

    Anton Demokhin, Deputy Foreign Minister, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

    George Dubinsky, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

    Nathaniel Fick, Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, U.S. Department of State

    Tanel Sepp, Ambassador at Large for Cyber Diplomacy at the Estonian MFA

    Tadeusz Chomicki, Ambassador for Cyber & Tech Affairs at the Polish MFA

    Joanneke Balfoort, Director for Security and Defence policy, European External Action Service

  • 17:00 – 18:00 | Discussion 4: Large State and Private Enterprises as Elements of the State's Cyber Resilience

    Boris Davidenko, Editor-in-Chief of Forbes

    Yegor Aushev, CEO, Cyber Unit Technology

    Oleksandr Komarov, President of Kyivstar

    Yevhen Lyashchenko, Chairman of the Board of Ukrzaliznytsia

    Serhii Chernenko, Chairman of the Board of FUIB Bank

    Iryna Volk, General Manager at Dell Technology Group, Ukraine, West CIS and Baltics

Hall B

  • 12:00 – 13:00 | Discussion 1: Strengthening the resilience of the national cyber security system through education and capacity building

    Olha Nasibullina, Founder of CyberPeople

    Mykhailo Verych, Regional Director, CRDF Global in Ukraine

    Trokhym Babych, Coordinator of the Educational Direction in Cybersecurity at the Faculty of Informatics, National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”

    Oleksandr Potiy, Deputy Head of the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine

    Andrii Chernyak, Rector of the Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine

  • 13:30 – 14:30 | Discussion 2: Messengers: Convenience vs. Security

    Anton Melnyk, Сo-Founder of Tech Ecosystem

    Yaroslav Azhnyuk, CEO of TheFourthLaw.ai

    Valentyn Kucheryuk, Founder & CEO of CyberLab

    Artem Starosek, Founder & CEO of Molfar, Owner of AIN.UA

    Kateryna Kruk, Head of Regional Policy, Central and Eastern Europe, Meta

    Bohdan Kit, VP of Product, Automattic

  • 14:30 – 15:30 | Lunch
  • 15:30 – 18:00 | Session 1: Role of Cyber Threat Intelligence for Resilience of State and Business

    Eugenia Volivnyk, Head of CERT-UA

    Sandra Joyce, Vice President, Mandiant Intelligence, Google Cloud

    Alina Urs, Senior Cyber Security Coordinator Service for Relations with NATO, UN and OSCE National Cyber Security Directorate - Romania

    Mr. OhSeung Kwon, Global Strategy Director, Korea Information Technology Research Institute

  • 16:10 – 16:30 | The realities of cyber warfare - the experience of investigating cyber attacks in 2023

    Nikita Veselkov, Team Lead of SOC, Senior technical specialist, ESET in Ukraine. Postgraduate student of the Department of Information and Cyber Security, State University of Information and Telecommunication Technologies

  • 16:30 – 16:45 | Which might happen this year, but probably won't. Even Nostradamus could be wrong, or his interpreters.

    Paavo Kuiv, specialist, CERT-EE

  • 16:45 – 17:05 | The role of cyber intelligence in the protection of the cyberspace of Ukraine

    Oleksandr Kulakovskyi, OpenText Cyber Security Representative

  • 17:05 – 17:25 | Ukrenergo's experience in countering cyberattacks and ensuring the stability of Ukraine's energy infrastructure

    Valery Yermoshin

  • 17:25 – 17:45 | Saga of epic cybmarine battle

    CERT-UA specialist

  • 17:45 - 18:00 | The phenomenon of Russian hacktivism

    Andrii Mankish, analyst, NCSCC

08.02

Hall A

  • 9:00 – 10:00 | Registration and welcome coffee

    Opening: Yegor Aushev, CyberUnit Technology

  • 10:00 – 11:30 | Session 1: Cybersecurity: Ukraine’s Experience for the World
  • 10:00 - 10:20

    Kateryna Chernohorenko, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitalization

  • 10:20 – 10:40 | Cyber resilience of the banking system of Ukraine

    Roman Proskurovskyi, National Bank of Ukraine

  • 10:40 - 11:00

    Stanislav Petrov, Deputy Head of ARMA for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitalization (CDTO)

  • 11:00 - 11:20 | Key lessons of cyber resilience National Depository learned during war time

    Oleksii Yudin, CEO National Depository of Ukraine

  • 11:20 - 11:40 | Ukraine needs Quantitative Cyber Risk Assessment

    Oleksiy Yankovsky, Partner, Head of IT and Cybersecurity consulting services KPMG group

  • 12:00 – 13:00 | Discussion 1: Development of Innovative Products in Ukraine

    Jane Klepа, Director of Partnerships and Innovation SET University

    Kateryna Chernohorenko, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitalization

    Ruslan Prylypko, Head of C2IS Aerorozvidka NGO

    Arnaud Dassier, Partner at Koryos Investment Fund, Co-founder of Forward Global, Expert in Influence and Cybersecurity

    Taras Kytsmei, SoftServe

    Matthew Murray, Sovereign Ventures

  • 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch
  • 14:00 – 15:00 | Discussion 2: Cybersecurity of Regions: The Formula for Protection

    Oleksandr Korinnyi, Mayor of Novoukrainka, Head of All-Ukrainian Association of Amalgamated Territorial Communities

    Olexander Tereshchenko, Advisor to the Head of the Rivne Regional State Administration

    Ivan Nachovnyi, Deputy Head of the Dnipro Regional State Administration (CDTO)

    Olena Hunko, Head of the Information Technology Department at the Lviv City Council

    Dmytro Kanarskyi, Head of the Department of Standardization and Implementation of E-Governance at the Mykolaiv City Council

    Andrii Bratus, Deputy Head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, (CDTO)

  • 15:30 – 17:30 | Session 2: National Cybersecurity Cluster Cybersecurity During the Warfare: Review of 2023 Achievements and Challenges

    Opening:

    Natalia Tkachuk, Head of the Information Security and Cybersecurity Service of the NSDC of Ukraine Office, Secretary of the NCSCC

    Mykhailo Verych, Regional Director, CRDF Global in Ukraine

    Participants:

    Serhii Prokopenko, Head of the NCSCC Support Department

    Ihor Tkachenko, Digital Transformation Advisor, IFES

    Iryna Khomenko, Deputy Chief of Party, USAID Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine Activity

    Oleksandr Ryzhenko, Leader component 2, EU4DigitalUA

    Christopher Fuchs, Head of the Economic Section at the German Embassy in Kyiv

    Andrii Krasnyy, Cyber Risk Director, Deloitte

  • 17:30 | Awarding Winners of the CTF

Hall B

  • 10:00 – 13:00 | Session 1: Countering Modern Hybrid Threats
  • 10:00 – 10:20 | People and technology: the key to success

    Serhii Khariuk, Founder and CEO AmonSul, co-founders of the largest cybersecurity community in Ukraine

  • 10:20 – 10:40 | Global vulnerabilities of network infrastructure in the context of war

    Oleksii Semenyaka, Independent expert

  • 10:40 – 11:00 | Open-Source Intelligence OSINT: Full Cycle Tech & Tradecraft to Protect People, Property, and Cyber Assets

    Andrew Borene, Executive Director for Global Security at Flashpoint

  • 11:00 – 11:20 | Asymmetry in Cyberspace: Mission Possible

    Nazar Tymoshyk, CERT-UA

  • 11:20 – 11:40 | Account Takeover and FIDO Passwordless Authentication as new secure way in cyber war

    Oleg Naumenko, CEO Hideez Group

  • 12:00 – 12:20 | Protecting extraordinary Ukrainian businesses, we protect Ukraine

    Oleh Matata, Head of the information security department, OKKO

    Andrii Kuzmenko, IBM Security, Ukraine

  • 12:40 – 13:00 | How to Master Security Zones: Practical Steps to Effectively Secure Critical Infrastructure and Any Industry

    Ilja David, CEO Iron OT

  • 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch
  • 14:00 - 14:20 | International legal responsibility of the Russian Federation for cyber aggression & qualification of individual cyber attacks as war crimes

    Ilona Khmeleva, Secretary, Economic Security Council of Ukraine

  • 14:20 - 14:40

    Ihor Solovey, Head of the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security

  • 14:40 - 15:00

    Oleksandr Melnychenko, Representative of the Department of Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Field of Information Security, Security Service of Ukraine

  • 15:30 – 15:50 | The Growing Oppression of Silent Bias

    Elizabeth Charnock, CEO Chenope

  • 15:50 – 16:10 | Cyberattack as a method of disinformation

    Anait Khoperiia, Head of the Department of Countering Information Threats to National Security at the CCD

  • 16:10 - 16:30

    Anton Tarasyuk, Co-founder of Mantis Analytics

  • 16:30 - 16:50 | AMPLIFYING UKRAINIAN VOICES THROUGH COMMUNITY-BASED VOLUNTEERING - THE UKRAINIAN PR ARMY EXPERIENCE

    Julia Petryk, Founder Tech PR School, co-founder PR Army

  • 16:50 - 17:10 | «Brama» is a platform that united society and the state in countering enemy propaganda

    Yevhen Panchenko, Head of the Cyber Police Department

  • 17:10 – 17:30

    Yulia Yanchuk, Head of the Information Policy Implementation Department, Department of Information Policy and Information Security, Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine

Participants

  • International and national entities dealing with cybersecurity and shaping a cyber policy
  • Business executives, representatives of sponsors and vendors
  • Donors interested in supporting cybersecurity initiatives
  • Potential investors in the development of Ukrainian digital technologies, interested in cybersecurity, defense, and security innovations
  • Cybersecurity and IT technical specialists willing to keep up with latest trends and technological solutions

Speakers

Yegor Aushev

Yegor Aushev

Cybersecurity expert, CEO and Co-Founder CyberUnit.Technologies

Yevhen Lyashchenko

Yevhen Lyashchenko

Chairman of the Board of Ukrzaliznytsia

Ohseung Kwon

Ohseung Kwon

Global Strategy Director, Best of the Best Program, Korea Information Technology Research Institute

Kateryna Kruk

Kateryna Kruk

Head of Regional Policy, Central and Eastern Europe, Meta.

Serhii Chernenko

Serhii Chernenko

Chairman of the Board of FUIB Bank

Dmytro Verbytskyi

Dmytro Verbytskyi

Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Oleksandr Melnychenko

Oleksandr Melnychenko

Representative SBU's Cyber ​​Security Department

Iryna Volk

Iryna Volk

General Manager at Dell Technology Group, Ukraine, West CIS and Baltics

Artem Starosek

Artem Starosek

Founder and CEO of Molfar, owner of AIN.UA

Anton Melnyk

Anton Melnyk

Co-founder of Tech Ecosystem

Taras Kytsmey

Taras Kytsmey

Managing Director at Softserve

Yaroslav Azhnyuk

Yaroslav Azhnyuk

CEO TheFourthLaw.ai

Andrii Bratus

Andrii Bratus

Deputy Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, CDTO

Valentyn Kucheruk

Valentyn Kucheruk

Director of the CyberLab Computer Forensics Laboratory

Bohdan Kit

Bohdan Kit

Head of Tumblr

Oleksandr Tereshchenko

Oleksandr Tereshchenko

Advisor to the Head of Rivne Regional State Administration

Ivan Nachovnyi

Ivan Nachovnyi

Deputy Head of the Dnipropetrovs'k Regional State Administration, CDTO

Olena Hunko

Olena Hunko

Head of IT Office in Lviv City Council

Dmytro Kanarskyi

Dmytro Kanarskyi

Head of IT Department in Mykolaiv City Council Executive Committee

Olga Nasibullina

Olga Nasibullina

Founder of CyberPeople

Colonel Andrii Cherniak

Colonel Andrii Cherniak

Rector of the National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor

Trokhym Babych

Trokhym Babych

Coordinator of the educational program Cybersecurity at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Назар Тимошик

Назар Тимошик

CERT-UA

Oleksii Yudin

Oleksii Yudin

CEO National Depository of Ukraine

Oleksandr Korinnyi

Oleksandr Korinnyi

Mayor of Novoukrainka, Head of All-Ukrainian Association of Amalgamated Territorial Communities

Elizabeth Charnock

Elizabeth Charnock

CEO, Chenope

Ruslan Prylypko

Ruslan Prylypko

Head of C2IS Aerorozvidka NGO

Nikita Veselkov

Nikita Veselkov

ESET in Ukraine

Oleksii Semenyaka

Oleksii Semenyaka

Independent expert

Yevheniy Panchenko

Yevheniy Panchenko

Head of the Cyber Police Department

Julia Petryk

Julia Petryk

Founder Tech PR School, co-founder PR Army

Informational materials

Statement by Tallinn Mechanism Members

for Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum 2024

A Decade in the Trenches of Cyberwarfare

Ukraine’s Story of Resilience

CTF

  • A two-day cybersecurity competition (CTF) featuring tasks closely resembling the real cases that occurred in 2023
  • For cybersecurity professionals of the public and private sectors, aiming at boosting their qualifications and honing their professional skills
Development

Organizers

01-usa-state-dep
02-rnbo
03-nccc
04-crdf
05-sbu
06-mo
07-minc
08-mfu
09-icwr
10-cyberunit

Partners

01-koryos
02-bakotech
03-brave1
03-def-con
04-cyberdiia
05-usf
06-cyberlab
07-underdefense
08-bugstream
10-voda-ua

Information Partners

01-itc
02-mctoday
03-army-info
04-ubn
05-speka