KYIV. June 8 (Interfax) - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree entitled "On the National Cybersecurity Coordination Center."
"The Center will coordinate Ukrainian national security and defense agencies during the implementation of the Ukrainian cybersecurity strategy, and raise the efficiency of the public administration system in devising and implementing the governmental cybersecurity policy," the head of state's press office said on Wednesday morning.
The Center is a working body of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC). The NSDC Secretary will be head of the Center, the NSDC cybersecurity chief will be the Center's Secretary.
Among the Center's main objectives are: to analyze the state of cybersecurity, the results of a national cybersecurity system review, the state of cybersecurity agencies' readiness to counter cyber threats, compliance with the legislative requirements to cyberproof government information electronic resources and information as required by the law, as well as critical information infrastructure; data on cyber incidents involving government information resources within information and telecommunications systems, and so on.
The Center will forecast and identify potential and real cyber threats in Ukraine, summarize international experience on providing cybersecurity; and promptly analyze information on cybersecurity issues for the NSDC.
The Center's members are cybersecurity specialists from Ukrainian security and defense agencies: deputies and first deputies in charge of cybersecurity to the Defense Minister, the Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff, the heads of the Security Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the National Police, the National Bank (by consent); the chief intelligence officer at the Defense Ministry; the chief intelligence officer in the administration of the State Border Guard Service; and the head of the State Service for Special Communications and Data Protection.