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Cyber Range Exercises in Ukraine

Duration October 2024 - April 2025

Cyber range exercises are an excellent and practical way to develop the cyber defence skills of cyber experts in Ukraine. As a country with a high degree of digitalisation and a history of cyberattacks targeting its government, businesses, and critical infrastructure, Ukraine requires skilled cyber experts to ensure continuity in vital services, counter malicious actors, and foster a secure and trusted digital environment.

With the ESTDEV-supported project, Estonia supports the public sector in Ukraine in developing cyber defence skills to help bolster Ukraine’s ability to protect its cyberspace. This collaboration strengthens Ukraine’s national security and contributes to the global fight against cyber warfare.

The 3-day exercise is a dynamic and immersive cybersecurity exercise designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate today’s complex threat landscape. By combining threat hunting, live-fire exercises, and a culminating hack-back scenario, this exercise will provide participants with a realistic and challenging environment to hone their defensive and offensive capabilities.

The exercise will be conducted under the leadership of e-Governance Academy in a simulation environment provided by CybExer, a NATO-awarded Estonian cybersecurity company. In the past, eGA, in collaboration with Cybexer, conducted a threat-hunting exercise and delivered a platform for the Ukrainian Armed Forces within the EU’s support to Ukraine through the European Peace Facility defence component from March 2022 to April 2024.

Cyber Exercise "UA-EE Cyber Shield via Tallinn Mechanism": Participants Feedback

In the video, Kristen Michael, Prime Minister of Estonia; Anton Demokhin, Deputy Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine; Sergii Prokopenko, National Cybersecurity Coordination Centre; Aare Reintam, Chief Operational Officer, Cybexer; Jevgen Vladimirov, Head of Cybersecurity Centre, National Academy of Security Service of Ukraine; Participant, #DNAcademy share their insights and feedback on the exercises.