Conceptual Provisions for Insuring Cybersecurity of the Energy Industry of Ukraine

Abstract

The spheres of cybersecurity (ensuring cybersecurity), as well as the functioning and protection of critical infrastructure and its objects in Ukraine, are defined by the Cybersecurity Strategy of Ukraine (2016), the laws of Ukraine "On the Basic Principles of Cybersecurity of Ukraine" (2017) and "About Critical Infrastructure" (2021). The formation and implementation of state policy in the mentioned spheres, and planning and execution of related measures by cybersecurity entities and critical infrastructure facilities take place at the regulatory, organizational, and technical levels. The work is devoted to the analysis of the state of regulatory provision of information security, cybersecurity, cyber protection, the creation and functioning of the national system of critical infrastructure in Ukraine, the practice of applying the provisions of the relevant regulatory and administrative documents by the subjects of cybersecurity, as well as the development of the main conceptual provisions of cybersecurity, which systematize the use of forces (means) and the implementation of security measures at the regulatory, organizational and technical levels, in energy (fuel and energy) sector of the state’s critical infrastructure for 3 years and determining the principles of forming priority approaches and measures to increase the level of cybersecurity of the energy industry.