Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club for a lunch seminar with Professor Josephine Wolff. She will discuss how the U.S. government helped Ukraine with cybersecurity. Click here to register for the event.

Beginning in late 2021, the U.S. government began sending cyber units to Ukraine to help the country reinforce its digital protections and alert systems against Russian intrusions. This conversation will offer a timeline of the types of technical assistance provided to Ukraine, ranging from network infrastructure to detection systems, the types of Russian cyberattacks and attempted intrusions that Ukraine and others encountered during that period, and the types of intelligence that the United States was able to glean through this partnership. We will also consider the broader impacts of the relative success of Ukraine’s cyber defense efforts on the U.S. Defend Forward doctrine as well as U.S. attempts to work more directly with international partners, especially in Eastern Europe, on cybersecurity that are often reluctant to grant foreign governments access to their networks.

We encourage you to read a news article about a U.S. military cyber team’s defense of Ukraine by British writer Gordon Corera, a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report on international support to Ukrainian cyber defense by technology policy expert Nick Beecroft, and a Google report on how the Russia-Ukraine war has transformed the cyber threat landscape. We also recommend Professor Wolff’s report for the Brookings Institution on the effectiveness of Ukraine’s digital defenses.

The Eurasia Club weekly lunch seminar series engages with students, faculty, staff, and researchers to foster a better understanding of the region among members of the Fletcher community. Members of the wider Tufts community are also welcome to attend. Lunch will be served in the Isobe Room, Mugar 251F.