Series of expert lectures at Karazin University

"Legal regulation on countering cyberthreats and ensuring cybersecurity in the EU", Olena Chernenko

The EU legislation review on cyber security in the era of digital transformation

Location: Online by Zoom, ID: 832 9831 9722, password 4v1b3w

Date:June 20, 2024 03:20 pm (by Kyiv)

With the development of the Internet and the technologies that serve and control it, we are entering a new digital age. This transformation is different from any of the previous similar transformations. Advances in technical fields such as language processing, machine learning, and deep learning have significantly improved the handling and use of social networks, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and more. These advances have certainly improved the functioning of companies, organizations, governments, society as a whole, and the daily life of an individual. These improvements have also created some new challenges, with cyber security being one of the main challenges.

Keeping up with new technologies, security trends, and threat intelligence is essential to staying cyber-secure. The first step is to understand what information might be valuable to the third party, and then how they can access it. Therefore, it is important to identify cyber threats in order to develop ways and tools to counter them.

The EU cyber security policy aims to protect against cyber threats and cyber attacks, as well as to ensure security and stability in cyberspace, it includes various regulatory and legal instruments designed to ensure security in cyberspace and counter cyber threats, and which are the basis for the creation and operation of a number of institutional tools for ensuring cyber security in the EU. For example, the EU regularly develops and updates its cyber security strategy, which sets out general principles and approaches to ensuring security in cyberspace.

The lecture is devoted to issues of regulatory and legal regulation of cyber security and countering cyber threats in the EU.

Olena Chernenko, Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations, International Information and Security, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. PhD in Law – civil law and process; family law; international private law.

Member of the team and full professor of the project “Practice of states on the justification of human rights: research on the involvement of civil society and human rights through the prism of gender and intersectionality” (101094346, HORIZON-CL2- 2022-DEMOCRACY-01, 2023 -2026). Lecturer, author of the grant application, member of the working group of the project Jean Monnet Module “Digital transformation of rights: learning fromthe EU”; 101127785, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs (2023 -2026). Participant of the international DAAD program “Ukraine digital: Ensuring academic success in times of crisis”; (“JOUKRAINE: ensuring online education for Ukrainian students”), V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences (2022-2023).

Expert-lecturer, member of working group of the project Jean Monnet Module “European Integration of kraine in Industry 4.0” 600222-EPP-1-2018-1-UA-EPPJMO MODULE, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (“Advocacy in Modern Business Activity in the EU”; Ukrainian Association and Industry 4.0” 2019 -2022). Lecturer, co-author of the grant application, member of working group of theproject Jean Monnet Module “The Foreign Policy of the European Union” 600222-EPP-1-2018-1-UA-EPPJMO-MODULE, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, (topics of classes: “EU Neighbourhood Policy”, “EU Environment Policy”, “Non-Proliferation and Control of Arms Export”, “Challenges without a Real External Policy. Health. Demography”, 2018-2021).

Social Challenges and Threats in the Digital Age, Viktoriia Bolotova

Location: Online by Zoom, ID: 812 6430 1036, password 2024

Date:June 28, 2024 03:20 pm (by Kyiv)

Digital technologies have become an integral part of modern society, significantly changing our daily life. However, alongside numerous benefits, they also bring a range of negative social consequences, from economic inequality and cybercrime to privacy violations and online violence. A particular threat, especially during wartime, is misinformation. The Internet has become the main source of information for many people.  But fake news and propaganda can manipulate public opinion, causing social tension and political instability. Moreover, social media algorithms often create so-called information bubbles, where users only see news and opinions that align with their interests. This leads to the polarization of society and the reduction of critical thinking. The lecture addresses the extent to which these threatening phenomena are widespread in Ukraine and the world, how they are being countered, and what effective countermeasures exist.

Viktoriia Bolotova – Associate Professor at the Applied Sociology and Social Communications Department, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, PhD in Sociology, coordinator and analyst of sociological researches in social communications, expert of The National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (Sociology).

Fundamental Knowledge about Attack and Defence In Cybersecurity» by Dmytro Uzlov and Vladyslav Hudilin, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Location: Online by Zoom

Date:

  • June 21, 2024 5:30 pm Kyiv time;
  • June 28, 2024 5:30 pm Kyiv time;

Speaker: Dmytro Uzlov, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science, PhD, Associate Professor, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Assistant: Vladyslav Hudilin, cybersecurity specialist, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Currently, in digitally connected world, the importance of safeguarding information systems cannot be overstated. Proposed lectures offer a comprehensive view on the principles and practices essential for protecting information systems. Designed for both aspiring cybersecurity professionals and seasoned IT practitioners, these lectures cover the foundational concepts and advanced strategies necessary to understand and mitigate cyber threats.

Participants will be immersed into the overview of what cybersecurity means, including key terms and definitions that make the background of the field. Then the lectures proceed with the core security principles and various controls that organizations can implement to enhance their security system. A critical component of the lecture is the examination of relevant laws and regulations that cover cybersecurity.

Participants also will explore common vulnerabilities within information systems and learn best practices of vulnerability management and mitigation.

By the end of this lectures, students will have a solid understanding of the basic cybersecurity’s theoretical and practical aspects, get the skills needed to protect information assets.

The topic consists of two lectures. The first lecture includes:

  • What is cybersecurity? Some terms and definitions.
  • Security principles, controls and strategies.
  • Laws and regulations in cybersecurity and information security
  • Risk management.
  • Information security threats.
  • Vulnerabilities.

The second lecture includes:

  • Why systems are still vulnerable?
  • What is the penetration testing?
  • The penetration testing lifecycle or basic attacks steps
  • Attack tools.
  • Defence mechanisms against attacks.
  • Cases of well-known attacks.

Physicality of the digital society: bodies, things, spaces. Alina Kalashnikova

Location: Online by Zoom, ID: 822 9271 4224, password 0mia3x

Date: June 18, 2024 17:00 pm (by Kyiv)

As humans, we are by design born in bodies made from organic materials, equipped for sensing, moving and acting in the physical world, which consists of spaces, places and things. But the digital space is different, disconnected from physical, highly interconnected, unique, unprecedented, and whatnot – but we do still use the same spatial metaphors to describe it.

In this lecture, Alina Kalashnikova will talk about the fundamentals of perception which shape our views of the space – both physical and digital, – and our approaches to embodiment as making things that can’t be touched, real. We will discuss the meaning of the place and placement in a world of communication, the objective dimension of our digital lives, and finally look at our minds and bodies as objects under construction in this ethereal contemporarity.

Alina Kalashnikova – Associate Professor at the Applied Sociology and Social Communications Department, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, PhD in Sociology, coordinator and analyst of sociological researches in social communications