Webinar: Are we ready for an outage of the digital infrastructures? – lessons learned from Ukraine
Date: 29 October, 2025
Time: 09:00–10:30 (CET)
Language: English
About the Webinar
With the heightened threat landscape facing Denmark—as outlined in Danish Security and Defence towards 2035—there is an urgent need to reinforce the mechanisms that form our national cyber emergency preparedness. These mechanisms must be capable of withstanding highly complex and potentially state-sponsored cyberattacks.
In Denmark, as in many other countries, we currently lack sufficient empirical data to fully understand how a paralyzing cyberattack would impact our digital infrastructure. What would happen if authorities, businesses, and citizens were suddenly cut off from internet access? What would the consequences be for critical sectors heavily dependent on telecommunications?
In this webinar, hosted by Resilience Center Denmark (RCD), a team of researchers from ITU, SDU and DBI will present findings from a pilot project funded by the National Defence Center (NFC). The study explored the readiness of the Danish telecommunications sector, with comparative insights from Ukraine’s experience in defending against Russian cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.
Speakers
- Oksana Kulyk (ITU) – Project results: Harms and Threats
- Peter Mayer (SDU) – Project results: Solutions and Challenges
- Jari Kickbusch (ITU) – Behind the Scenes of the Interviews in Ukraine
- Jorge Ivan Contreras-Cardeno (DBI) – Conclusions, Next Steps – A Resilience Perspective
Why you shouldn’t miss it
The webinar will:
- Highlight society’s deep interdependency on telecommunications.
- Expose the lack of clear, actionable preparedness and emergency response guidance for organizations and citizens.
- Offer reflections on how lessons from Ukraine could shape Denmark’s path toward more robust and inclusive cyber resilience.
We invite professionals working in critical infrastructure sectors, risk and crisis management, business continuity, cyber preparedness, and NIS2 and CER Directive implementation to take part in this timely discussion.
