State Department pledges $8 million more in cybersecurity aid to Ukraine

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State Department pledges $8 million more in cybersecurity aid to Ukraine
March 3, 2020
https://www.cyberscoop.com/state-department-ukraine-cyber-aid-kyiv/

U.S. military assistance to Ukraine sparked an impeachment inquiry, but U.S. cybersecurity aid to the Eastern European country continues to flow, unimpeded and under the radar.

The State Department on Tuesday announced an additional $8 million in cybersecurity funding for Ukraine, whose electric utilities sector has twice been struck by Russia-linked hackers in recent years. One of those cyberattacks, in 2015, plunged a a quarter of a million Ukrainians into darkness.
Some of the new funding will be used for building out Kyiv’s legal and regulatory framework for improving cyberdefenses, the State Department said.

“Ukraine has a very robust technical workforce,” MITRE’s Johanna Vazzana, who is working on the Ukraine project, told CyberScoop.
The challenge is putting those technical capabilities to use with good cybersecurity jobs in government and the private sector, and getting all elements of society involved.
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