Pavlo Chernikov
Wartime critical infrastructure cybersecurity: researcher and former Acting Director of Kyiv's municipal cybersecurity enterprise.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Pavlo Chernikov is an independent researcher in critical infrastructure resilience based in Portland, Oregon. From 2021 to 2024 he was acting director of Kyiv's municipal cybersecurity enterprise, responsible for city cybersecurity, network operations and digital-service continuity through the full-scale war. The enterprise ran a city-scale SOC/SIEM, about 950 km of municipal fiber connecting 1,500 institutions, and a LoRaWAN network of about 300 base stations.
His peer-reviewed research covers SIEM correlation, LoRaWAN under electronic warfare and municipal IT resilience. His latest article, published in the Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy (Wiley, 2026), sets out a framework for deciding which wartime practices transfer to critical infrastructure operators in the United States.
In 2026 he speaks at SecurityWeek's ICS Cybersecurity Conference and CISO Forum, CODE BLUE in Tokyo, and the IEEE Smart City USA Conference.
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