Ukraine Is Teaching Cybersecurity to the World
Ukraine Is Teaching Cybersecurity to the World
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Publish Date: 2026-03-08 01:56:00
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The war in Ukraine has highlighted the threat of cyber warfare. Many solutions to protect countries’ digital infrastructure are being developed thanks to the experience gained by Ukrainian operators, who have been exposed to attacks by Russian hackers for more than four years.
For this reason the Kyiv International Cybersecurity Resilience Forum (KICRF) in February 2026 was packed with foreign companies and government officials. Kyiv Post asked Yegor Aushev, Managing Partner of KICRF, about the outcome of this third edition.
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Ukraine has gained unique experience in cyber warfare during the full-scale invasion. How can this operational knowledge be translated into structured industrial partnership with defense companies abroad?
What we’re trying to do is find a win-win approach, because we understand that foreign companies, when they come to Ukraine, need to do business with Ukraine. So my idea is to create something here that can be useful for companies of other countries, in an easy and understandable way.
February 2026 Kyiv International Cybersecurity Resilience Forum. (Photo courtesy Yegor Aushev)
Ukraine is now a front line and one of the most attacked countries in the world of cyberspace. My idea is just that people and companies can bring their technologies here to Ukraine to try them, because if they don’t do it, they will not be competitive in a couple of years anymore because also our enemy, the Russians, are developing a lot of technologies against us.
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