About NAK.
The National Cybersecurity Association of Ukraine is an independent association and a platform for cooperation between the state, business and the expert community.
Mission.
The mission of the National Cybersecurity Association of Ukraine is to bring together the state, business, the expert community, researchers and technology companies to build a safe, resilient and open digital environment in Ukraine and around the world.
Through public-private collaboration, a growing industry ecosystem, knowledge sharing, joint initiatives and international partnerships, we help strengthen cyber resilience, the safe adoption of artificial intelligence, the response to information threats and trust in digital technologies.
Vision
A world in which states, business, professionals and society together shape a safe internet and a responsible digital ecosystem able to withstand cyber wars, information attacks, deepfakes and the risks of artificial intelligence.
The challenges we answer together.
Photo: Shixart1985 · CC BY 2.0 · toned A relative’s cloned voice
A call “from your son” or “from your mum” asking for money, urgently.
Photo: Shixart1985 · CC BY 2.0 · toned A fake video of a CEO
An order to make a payment, or a statement that was never made.
Photo: Rodion Kutsaev · CC0 A coordinated campaign
Dozens of accounts attacking a person’s or a company’s reputation at once.
Why Ukraine’s experience matters to the world.
What is a scenario elsewhere is experience in Ukraine.
Security under real pressure
For years Ukraine has worked through cyberattacks on energy, communications, public services and the media, alongside a full-scale war.
Threats as daily practice
Deepfakes, information operations and attacks on critical infrastructure are not a training scenario here, but everyday work.
A contribution to international expertise
The association connects Ukrainian specialists with international partners, so that experience of cyber resilience shapes international expertise: guidance, research and shared approaches.
How we work.
Six rules every piece of NAK’s work follows.
Independence
NAK is not a government body and runs no hidden advertising. We disclose our funding and any potential conflicts of interest.
Sources first
Every claim on this site carries a date and a primary source. What we can’t confirm, we don’t publish.
Method, not verdicts
No detector can say for certain whether a file is genuine. We show the method, the level of confidence and the limits of any conclusion.
Defence first
We publish nothing that makes attacks easier: no non-public indicators, no infrastructure diagrams, no data about victims.
Corrections and right of reply
We correct mistakes openly and date the correction. Anyone our material discusses has a right of reply.
Apart from private interests
NAK’s work does not concern the personal or business affairs of its leadership. The president’s own projects are kept apart from NAK’s.
History and results.
Only what can be checked: every line links to a document or a primary source.
All facts and sourcesFounding and state registration of the National Cybersecurity Association of Ukraine in Kyiv.
≈2020
Memorandum of cooperation with the National Cybersecurity Coordination Center at the NSDC: public-private collaboration on the security of state information resources and critical infrastructure.
As stated by NAK · document on requestCo-organised the round table “Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity in Ukraine’s Healthcare System” with the National Security and Defense Council and the eHealth Consortium.
NAK’s submissions were taken up at a meeting of the Public Council at Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation.
NAK’s president presented the association’s work to the Public Council at the Ministry of Digital Transformation and offered to advise it on cyber defence.
Strategic priorities 2026–2027
New strategic directions: AI security, deepfakes and synthetic media, information integrity, cyber resilience, critical infrastructure and sovereign AI, digital trust.
What NAK is not.
Names in our field are similar, so here is what we are not, to avoid confusion with other bodies.
Not a government body
An independent association, not subordinate to any public authority.
Not the National Cybersecurity Coordination Center or the national cybersecurity cluster
These are state structures; NAK is not part of them.
Not the “Cybersecurity Association of Ukraine”
A separate association with a different registry code (43289798).
Not НАКБУ
The Scientific Cybersecurity Association of Ukraine is a different organisation.
Not a forensics or takedown service
We publish methods and guides, but we don’t take files in for examination or remove material from platforms.
Legal details.
From Ukraine’s Unified State Register. The source of each line is on the facts page.
Facts and sources- Legal name
- Громадська організація «Національна асоціація кібербезпеки»
- Short name
- НАК
- EDRPOU code
- 43452536
- Registered
- 15 January 2020, Kyiv
- Legal form
- Non-profit association (громадська організація)
- Governing bodies
- General meeting, executive committee, president
- Address
- 3 Dorohozhytska St, Kyiv 04119, Ukraine
For media and partners.
Verified facts about NAK, official wording, photos for publication and a contact for journalists.