On July 8, 2025, experts from Cybersecurity and Privacy Analytics LLC held a roundtable "Involving the Private Sector and Civil Society in Implementing Measures to Deter Destructive Activity in Cyberspace (Creating Cyber Legions)".
The event was held with the support of the USAID Project "Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure" and with the assistance of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence.
At the center of the discussion was the draft Law of Ukraine "On the Fundamentals of Comprehensive Involvement of the Private Sector and Civil Society in Implementing Measures to Deter Destructive Activity in Cyberspace", which proposes creating a regulatory framework for the official involvement of cybersecurity specialists and volunteers from the private sector in protecting the state's critical infrastructure.
Discussion participants reviewed important debatable issues before the draft law is submitted for registration in the Verkhovna Rada. The discussion was joined by Oleksandr Fediienko, head of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Government Communications, and Cryptographic Information Protection of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence, and other representatives of bodies and institutions that are participants in the cooperation to be regulated by the draft law.
Among the topics discussed:
- the procedure for involving specialists and organizing their activities;
- the possibility of compensation and social guarantees;
- creating a database of specialists and ensuring data confidentiality;
- the limits of responsibility and forms of interaction with state bodies;
- the feasibility of a self-governance model through a self-governing League.
The following took part in the discussion:
- Representatives of state authorities and the security sector:
- Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence
- Office of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
- Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
- Security Service of Ukraine
- Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine
- Administration of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection
- Cyber Police Department
- State Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies
- Representatives of education and the expert community:
- State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute"
- NGO "Center for Analysis and Development of Effective Policies"
- DeepStateUA
- Experts from international technical assistance projects
- Representatives of business and the IT sector:
- Nova Digital
- iIT Distribution
- ST&T;
- Seeton
- ELKO Ukraine
The discussion became another step toward creating a system for involving volunteers in the field of cyber defense that will operate on the principles of transparency, security, and effective public-private partnership.
