{"id":264146,"date":"2026-06-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/ukraines-experience-highlights-the-need-for-preparation-in-cyber\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:05:12","slug":"ukraines-experience-highlights-the-need-for-preparation-in-cyber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/ukraines-experience-highlights-the-need-for-preparation-in-cyber\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s Experience Highlights the Need for Preparation in Cyber"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine\u2019s Experience Highlights the Need for Preparation in Cyber<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/resilience-perseverance-ukraine\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-04 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Preparation, resilience and self-reliance are the traits that cybersecurity professionals need in the fight against cyber threats, according to former Ukrainian foreign minister.<\/p>\n

Dmytro Kuleba, who served as Ukraine\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2020 to 2024, shared several stories of wartime experience that chimed with attendees at Infosecurity Europe.<\/p>\n

The first has a powerful message for incident responders. Kuleba cited the massive outage at telco KyivStar, which was swiftly remediated by the company after Russian hackers struck in December 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t know what and how it\u2019s going to happen, but you can practice, brainstorm, calculate and prepare so it becomes your muscle memory of how to behave in a crisis situation,\u201d Kuleba said. \u201cYou plan, not to follow the plan but to know your environment perfectly. And to develop instincts of survival in this environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kuleba practices what he preaches and\u00a0he began \u201cstrategic planning\u201d for a possible invasion a year previously in his ministry, wargaming what would happen if employees had no access to online messaging apps.<\/p>\n

Read more on Ukrainian cyber warfare:\u00a0#Infosec2025: Good Cybersecurity Enabled Ukraine\u2019s Surprise Attack on Russia, Says NCSC<\/p>\n

This forward planning is essential, even if an eventual incident turns out differently to the plan, he argued.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen [the invasion] happened, we evacuated our servers to a safe place abroad. Almost everything else we did differently [to the planned scenario] under the pressure, of circumstances\u201d Kuleba explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we didn\u2019t waste a single a second figuring out what was possible or impossible, because we knew all of that in advance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you care for your company, you have to prepare for the worst. If it happens you will still be instinctively capable of winning even if your initial plan is ruined. If it doesn\u2019t happen, you\u2019ll find yourself in a stronger position.\u201d<\/p>\n

Security and Self-Reliance<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Kuleba also shared…<\/p>\n

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