Ukraine advances to top cyber defence amid Russian hacker attacks

The head of the French Cyber Defence Command, General Aymeric Bonnemison, has said this, the Euractiv portal has reported.

General Bonnemison believes that Ukraine has managed to make a "real revolution" by advancing to the top of its cyber defence, suffering high-level Russian cyber attacks.

In particular, this has come at the expense of Russia trying to attack Ukraine since 2014. In that time, the Ukrainian cyberspace has hardened, strengthened and become more defensible.

According to the French general, Ukraine could have been "brought to its knees," but it has not, quite the opposite: Ukraine now has a defensive advantage, which, according to the general, "is a real paradigm shift," allowing the Ukrainian state to deter, reorganize and "use other systems to recover, all with considerable creativity and innovation" in cyber defense.

Also, Bonnemison said Ukraine built its cyber defense in cooperation with Western countries, most notably the U.S. This all had a decisive factor and helped Ukraine stand strong now.