Cyberwarfare

The era of isolated, “perfectly secure” systems is over—everything is now interconnected, interdependent, and vulnerable. At CyberChess 2025, Anastasiia Voitova, Head of Security Engineering at Cossack Labs, shared, under TLP:AMBER and only with participants, Cossack Labs’ experience of securing selected Ukrainian critical national infrastructure and mission-critical systems, and the security measures implemented to mitigate russian cyber threats.

Head of Security Engineering Anastasiia Voitova shared unique expertise on building resilient security controls for mission-critical applications and defending nation-wide infrastructures from cybersecurity threats at NATO TIDE Sprint 2024 event, held by NATO Allied Command Transformation.

Cossack Labs participates in the discussion of current issues of assessing the state of cybersecurity of critical infrastructure and took part in the “Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Diagnostics: Strengthening Digital Protection” conference. The conference was held by USAID Cybersecurity Activity, the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine and the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.

The talks focused on critical infrastructure cyber defence enhancement as part of the USAID-supported Program for diagnosing cybersecurity status of critical infrastructure operators. The Program is based on the updated NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 from National Standards and Technology Institute.

Ihor Malchenyuk, Head of Customer Solutions at Cossack Labs, spoke at the CYBERSEC FORUM/EXPO 2023 panel “Investments in Cybersecurity in the CEE Region.”

Ihor discussed cybersecurity challenges in the CEE region, such as the growing number of malware and ransomware attacks, the increased focus on users/people and endpoints, the rising cost of data breaches, the expansion of privacy regulations, and cyberwarfare against mission-critical applications and critical infrastructure assets.

The main conclusion—a lot of pressure from a very dynamic threat landscape, lessons learned from current cyber warfare, and legislation to encourage businesses to practise healthy cyber hygiene create a market opportunity for cooperation between governments and businesses to address the challenges.