Public policy of cybersecurity in Ukraine

Abstract

Objectives: Government and civil sector activities for supporting the cyber security during the full-scale invasion in Ukraine to rethink innovative national technologies and the latest achievements in AI, in the context of Ukrainian institutional capacity and supporting informational resilience in times of crisis. Prior work: The research summarizes Google’s report on the Munich Security Conference (2026), the official statistics on AI use in government services, a few cases of cyber-attack in Ukraine. Approach: Cyber security analized as a part of informational resilience and institutional capacity in preventing informational threats using official regulation, government strategy, business and society impact to disinformation counteraction. Results: The effectiveness of public policy in cyber security depends on institutional forms of state-business partnership, in particular cyber security clusters. As the networks of government, private, scientific and educational organizations they can concentrate resources, knowlege and technologies for innovative and decisions to respond quickly for informational and digital threats by society consolidation. Implications: Ukrainian experience in cyber security in times of crisis can be useful for both researchers and policy makers as the outputs for deepening theoretical analysis and developing public strategies and policies in shaping, preventing and managing modern informational threats. Value: The paper summarizes recent policies and cases of cyber security in a systematic, institutional form, including the government, public and private sectors partnership.