My today’s post is dedicated to contemporary forms of threats and protection against them. We will discuss cyber security, an area, in which Israel is a leader.

Gradually, our whole life is being digitized: we store our family photos and correspondence in computers, information about any enterprise has long been transferred from barn books and mountains of paper into a neat little box with a set of keys.

At the same time, there are new types of crime: Hackers break into banking systems and web sites of major corporations; steal information and money in unlimited amounts; penetrate defense systems. All of this brings a huge damage to the economy of different countries and becomes a serious threat to safety.

Such a serious need to protect the state from continuous attacks affected the creation of a large variety of security technologies in Israel.

Over the past year, Israel has made significant technological leap. According to the National Bureau of cyber security of the State of Israel, 10% of all world's technologies in the area were created by for companies established in Israel. Last year alone, the number of sold software by Israeli experts exceeded 60 billion dollars.

As recognition of the highest level of reliability of Israeli technology became the decision of the international corporation "Microsoft" to concentrate in its centers in Haifa and Herzliya all the company's activities in the field of cyber security. Over the last year the company acquired five Israeli start-ups involved in developments in this area.

In addition, according to the Bloomberg agency, Israel ranks fifth in the ranking of the most innovative countries, ahead of the USA, Sweden, Singapore, France and Great Britain.

Today the infrastructure of cyber security in Israel includes about two hundred companies. Israel has created programs of technology incubators and programs which support companies in the research and development. All this leads to the fact that today Israel is a world leader in the field of hi-tech.

In 2015 Ukraine has also made a serious step in the IT-security of the country: in April, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and Microsoft Company signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of cyber security. In the long view, cooperation within the program of operational and technical support of the highest class Microsoft Premier Support is planned, as well as signing the Agreement on cooperation on security issues by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Today, Israel is ready to invest strongly in the development of high technologies in Ukraine. However, who wants to risk and invest his own capital in the country with the highest level of corruption, without clear rules of business and country where personal relations are more important than the law? Isn’t it time for our politicians (and, hence, the oligarchs) to think about sustainable development of the state, considering the fact that Ukraine has everything necessary for that. The main thing is not to interfere.