Aerorozvidka ("aerial reconnaissance") is a team of hundreds of members that came into being in 2014 and in six years turned into a non-governmental organization (NGO). Aerorozvidka specialists help the Security and Defense Forces of Ukraine implement IT, robotic, and network-centric solutions to fight the enemy. The team calls itself "an example of the direct involvement of civil society in repelling aggression against Ukraine."

"The most vulnerable link in cyber defense is a human," says Ruslan Prylypko, head of the Aerorozvidka IT department. Liga.Tech talked to him about the vulnerability of Ukrainian defenders in cyberspace, the Delta system, and ways to make the military more secure from cyberattacks.

Delta is a situational awareness system for the army. This system is interoperable with similar NATO developments and resembles a game where data is collected in real time and used to strike at the Russian army. The development was started in 2015 by Aerorozvidka volunteers, and over the past five years, the project has been developed by the military for the military, with the Defense Technology Innovation and Development Center under the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine as the system's developer.

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In the spring, Aerorozvidka launched the Cyber Resilience project as a response to the challenge posed by enemy cyberterrorism. According to Ruslan Prylypko, it includes attacks on military systems, such as Delta. "These systems play an important role in the war, and Russian attacks are constant and do not abate.

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