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Vsevolod Kovalchuk told a new briefing that UKrenergo and
international consultants had identified about 20 threats, all
of which would be neutralized with the new system.
"We have developed a new concept of cyber security whose key
goal is to make it physically impossible for external threats to
affect the Ukrainian energy system," he said. He added the
defense would come into force in 2020 and include new software,
as well as what he called administrative actions.
In December 2015, a first-of-its-kind cyber attack cut the
lights to 225,000 people in western Ukraine, with hackers also
sabotaging power distribution equipment, complicating attempts
to restore power.
A year later, a cyber attack caused a power blackout in
Ukraine's capital Kiev. In June 2017 Ukrenergo appeared to be an
early victim of a cyber attack that began in Ukraine and spread
around the world, knocking out thousands of machines, shutting
down ports, factories and offices in around 60 countries.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk, Editing by William Maclean)
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