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USAID project Cybersecurity for Ukraine’s Critical Infrastructure
Project objective
The project is aimed at strengthening Ukraine’s cyber readiness and cyber resilience through systemic reforms, building Ukraine’s human resources in the field of cybersecurity, and partnerships with the private sector. The mentoring programme includes increasing the country’s readiness for cyber threats, the ability to build strong defence around critical infrastructure in Ukraine, and enhancing cybersecurity knowledge and skills.

Partnership
The donor of the technical assistance project is the United States Agency for International Development. Project number assigned by the donor is 72012120С00002. The executing agency is DAI Global LLC. The group of project partners includes Florida International University, Information Systems Security Partners (ISSP), Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Catalyst, Veterans First Initiative, and SocialBoost. The beneficiary is The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine with the support of the concerned body of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.

Project activities:
building up the human resources of Ukraine in the field of cybersecurity by improving the skills of our teachers under the guidance of teachers from Florida International University (https://www.fiu.edu/), which allows us to organise and conduct the educational process in the field of cybersecurity in accordance with international best practices;
preparing new and updating existing disciplines within the educational programmes in the University speciality 125 Cybersecurity;
training students using virtual cyber training grounds on the https://www.rangeforce.com website using the licences provided under the project.
Expected results:
The project is expected to make Ukraine’s critical infrastructure more resilient to cyberattacks by building trust and cooperation between key stakeholders in the field of cybersecurity, representing government, private business, academia and civil society.

More than 10 lecturers are planned to be trained at Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic with the corresponding update of the curricula and training work programmes corresponding to the courses:

basics of computer and network security;
security and privacy of the Internet of Things;
security of cyber-physical systems;
security of web applications;
cloud cybersecurity;
audit and risk management;
cyber incident response;
digital forensics;
malware analysis;
penetration testing.
Students are being trained using virtual cyber training grounds at https://www.rangeforce.com (120 licences were obtained within the project). In addition, students of the Zaporizhzhia Professional College of Computer Technologies of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University were involved in cyber training in 2021/2022 (https://zfkkt.org.ua/).

Project coordinator from Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic:
Hanna Nelasa
tel.: +38 (061) 7-698-597
e-mail: nelasa@zp.edu.ua