When Oleksandr Potii took the helm of Ukraine’s cybersecurity agency last November, his to-do list exploded. Once responsible for only a handful of policy areas, the brigadier general saw his remit expand to more than a dozen — from protecting critical infrastructure to coordinating cyberdefense in the midst of a full-scale war. Potii’s promotion to lead the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) came as Ukraine faced relentless Russian attacks on both the battlefield and in cyberspace. He is the third person to run the agency since the Kremlin’s invasion in 2022. A former information security professor with more than 25 years in the Ukrainian armed forces, Potii is blunt about Moscow’s capabilities: “We see that Russia’s technical level is high and its potential is strong. We cannot underestimate them,” he said in an interview. “Russia has not only the capabilities but also the motivation and political will to use them. Their intellectual resources are not directed at building something for their own country, but at destruction.”. In an interview at the SSSCIP office in Kyiv, Potii spoke with Recorded Future News about Ukraine’s evolving cyber capabilities and cooperation with Western allies — while warning that Moscow’s hackers remain well-resourced, motivated and politically driven even in the third year of the war.
Ukraine’s cyber chief on Russian hackers’ shifting tactics, US cyber aid (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)
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