Working during the war:

by civilian entity from Kyiv, Ukraine

mid-term update

Anastasiia Konoplova, CISA, CRISС,CDPSE, CISA, CRISС,CDPSE Trainer, owner&CEO of LLC UAG (UA
resident, continuity since 1999), an ISACA Kyiv Chapter leader, master of economics (economic
cybernetics), experience in assurance and consulting in risk, information technology management
and information security management systems since 2005.
More about professional activity:
Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiia-konoplova-9342b57b/
Public activity: https://www.slideshare.net/AnastasiiaKonoplova
Blog: https://www.facebook.com/llcuag

24.02.2022 -22.02.2023 Reputation: https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/Women4Cyber

Takeaway, 28.03.2022* – follow-up (22.02.2023)
02/22
10/22 01/23
1. Uncertainty is beatable.

Take decision. 2. You can manage your

Do, what depends on you. decisions in each situation.

It builds trust. 3. Consistency with values

defines outcome

*https://www.slideshare.net/AnastasiiaKonoplova/resilienceq12022pdf
War, retrospective: before 24.02.2022
Previous
XII century (1169) – XXI century (2014)
history with the
same enemy

Modern history 21/11/2013- 02/2014

Euromaidan, or Revolution of Dignity: hybrid operation of RF to take control over
Ukraine failed (Yanukovych fleeted to RF; elections in Ukraine happened)
As of 23.02.2023
02/2014 – 09/2014
43 300 sq.km, or 7% of Hybrid war: RF occupation of Crimea peninsula (using naval bases there by
1997-2017 agreement, updated by Yanukovych and Medvedev in 2010)
territory of Ukraine occupied*
09/2014 – 03/2021
~1,5 millions Anti-terroristic operation (ATO)/Joint Forces Operation: fixed conflict in Donbas,
internally moved (officially registered)** fed by RF, 7% of Ukraine territory occupied; cyberthreats

03/2021 – 02/2022
~14,200-14,400 killed*** RF was building capacity around Ukraine, using occupied territory and Belarus

*https://www.unian.ua/war/rosiya-okupuvala-mayzhe-chvert-ukrajini-blizko-20-teritoriji-novini-vtorgnennya-rosiji-v-ukrajinu-11839503.htm

**https://voxukraine.org/velyke-pereselennya-skilky-naspravdi-v-ukraini-vpo-ua/

*** 4425 UAF soldiers and volunteers, name by name: https://memorybook.org.ua/indexfile/statistic.htm

***https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#cite_note-OHCHR-10
War, retrospective: after 24.02.2022
24/02/2022 – c. 28/02/2022 Chaos. The worst scenario. Dealing with panic.
Current Realization of basic decisions (who you are, where you
are, what you care about).

story c. 28/02/2022 – c. 16/03/2022 Crisis management. Operations reconfiguration: who

works, what works, how to work.

Changed from 24/02/22 c. 16/03/2022 – c. 01/05/2022 Securing control. Follow-up of basic decisions.

Martial law

Civilians targeted c. 01/05/2022 – c. 10/10/2022 Building social consensus. Recovery, where possible.
Supply chains updated.

Global support
c.10/10/2022 – c. 07/01/2023 Terror threat. Civil critical infrastructure attacks. Random
Excessive information attacks infrastructure, as a result. Aggressive rhetoric: nuclear
threat (bomb or power plant), Dnipro cascade attack.

c. 07/01/2023 – current The “Eye of the storm”. The war continues. Threats exist.
Information space continues to be aggressive. Reality is
more quite. Be in reality, being ready for the worst
scenario.
Insights about “force of law” environment

Martial law. Critical infrastructure.

• Civil rights limitation. Mobilisation. Be • Energy, communication, finance, water
aware of this legislation in your supply, heating, etc. If it was, and there
jurisdictions. It touches also property, is government, there will not be “stone
employment, taxation. age”. It will work, but random.

Local community matters. Publicity works.

• Preparedness, readiness to support • Justice works better, when it is backed
each other, representation of by PR campaign (spontaneous or
consensus define outcome for each supported). Unfortunately. But it should
member. be justice, not just PR. Fortunately.
ISACA Kyiv Chapter
Social consensus in Ukraine
Rocket terror, 10/2022

https://kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=news&page=1
Grounding practice, January 2023