![]() Zhora believes that, among other things, this has hampered Russia’s ability to launch cyber operations. Instead, Russia has to rely on servers abroad, an unattractive choice given that many Western tech companies have stopped selling cloud services in Russia, and that the Kremlin also fears that data stored on foreign cloud services is more easily monitored by foreign intelligence agencies. ![]() Zhora argues these sanctions have made it challenging for Russia to expand sovereign cloud systems. ![]() Many states, led by the EU and the US, have imposed increased sanctions against Russia since February 2022, including in the area of technology. Zhora also asserted that Western sanctions have played a part in limiting Russia’s cyber effectiveness. He argued that the emigration of Russian tech professionals has seen a ‘brain drain’ of vital skills from Russia, which has constrained its ability to deploy sophisticated hacking capabilities against Ukraine as the war has unfolded. Attempts to secure new accesses are time-consuming and complicated, thereby delaying any potential impact operations.įurther, Zhora identified several resource challenges to Russian operations that he argued have limited their effectiveness. This denied Russia the ability to leverage these to deliver cyber operations. Zhora suggested that some key Russian accesses to Ukrainian networks were compromised before the February 2022 invasion. Zhora’s contribution focused primarily on Russian destructive and disruptive operations against Ukraine and their limited success to date. These can be divided into three types of cyber operations: cyber espionage that seeks to collect information and data subversive operations including propaganda, influence and information operations and destructive and disruptive operations – for example, those seeking to disrupt communications systems. Ukraine, having long been targeted by Russian cyber operations, has been subject to an uptick in attacks both before and since the Russian invasion in February 2022. Speaking at RUSI, Victor Zhora, Deputy Chairman and Chief Digital Transformation Officer of the SSSCIP (the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine), provided his perspective on the lack of Russian success in the cyber domain. Explanations for why a cyber catastrophe has not materialised vary. Russian cyber operations in Ukraine have not met expectations that a ‘cyber Pearl Harbour’ would form part of the next large-scale military confrontation.
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