ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL BASES OF CYBERSECURITY OF UKRAINE

Abstract

In this article, the author notes that ensuring cybersecurity is one of the priorities in Ukraine’snational security system. The share of cyber threats is growing and this trend will intensify with the developmentof information technologies and their convergence with artificial intelligence technologies. The growth of suchinfluence on the functioning of both national and transnational governance structures creates a new security situation.The legal basis for cybersecurity in Ukraine is the Constitution of Ukraine, laws of Ukraine on national security,principles of domestic and foreign policy, electronic communications, protection of state information resourcesand information, the Convention on Cybercrime, other international treaties, regulations adopted to enforce lawsof Ukraine.Legal and organizational bases of cybersecurity are determined by the Law of Ukraine “On Basic Principlesof Cyber Security of Ukraine” of October 5, 2017 № 2163-VIII and Cyber Security Strategy of Ukraine, approvedby the Decree of the President of Ukraine of August 26, 2021 № 447/2021.Coordination of activities in the field of cybersecurity as a component of national security of Ukraine is carriedout by the President of Ukraine through the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine headed by him.The National Coordination Center for Cyber Security, as a working body of the National Security and DefenseCouncil of Ukraine, coordinates and monitors the activities of entities in the security and defense sector that providecyber security. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ensures the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of cybersecurity. A system of subjects of cybersecurity and interrelated measures of political, scientificand technical, informational, educational nature, organizational, legal, operational and investigative, intelligence,counterintelligence, defense, engineering and technical measures, as well as measures of cryptographic and technicalprotection of national information resources, cyber protection of critical information infrastructure is the NationalCyber Security System.