NAU Joins USAID Critical Infrastructure Cyber Security Project in Ukraine

Intentions with American company DAI Global LLC according to which the university joined USAID educational project "Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructure of Ukraine".

The main goal of the project is to build Ukraine's human resource capacity in cybersecurity, and its feature is cooperation with Ukrainian universities to provide teachers with access to modern virtual cybersecurity training labs.

The project itself is designed for the next few years, and since July of this year, 15 NAU faculty members have already been participating in it, receiving training in the following areas:

- cyber incident response;

- Cloud storage cybersecurity;

- Web application security;

- malware;

- auditing and risk management in cybersecurity.

NAU's project coordinator is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Cyber Security, Computer and Software Engineering Serhiy Hnatiuk.