Numerous buildings in Kharkiv have been damaged including the Palace of Labor (above) and the City Hall (top)
Wall Street Journal: Ukraine Has Begun Moving Sensitive Data Outside Its Borders
Some government databases are already on cloud servers in Poland, and officials are negotiating similar arrangements with France, Estonia and several other nations
Ukrainian government officials have begun storing sensitive data outside the country to protect it from Russian cyber and physical assault, and are negotiating with several European nations to move more databases abroad.
Since the start of the war, around 150 registries from different government ministries and offices, or backup copies of them, have been moved abroad or are in discussions to be transferred, said George Dubinskiy, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation.
Previously, much of the government’s information trove was held in data centers in Ukraine, and needed first to be moved to the cloud before backup copies could be transferred, he said.
The government prioritized important databases to move from old legacy data-storage systems, and created copies of those registries for storage in clouds outside Ukraine, he said.
“To be on the safe side, we want to have our backups abroad,” Mr. Dubinskiy said. Moving databases to the cloud adds a layer of security because government officials can still access it even if a data center in Ukraine were demolished by Russian weapons, he said.
The government specified legal and security provisions to help protect the databases from cyber and other threats, he added.
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WNU Editor: This should have been done when the war started.
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