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State Special Communications Service of Ukraine

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Preceding agency
  
KGB

Headquarters
  
Kyiv

Jurisdiction
  
Ukraine

Parent agency
  
President of Ukraine

State Special Communications Service of Ukraine

Formed
  
1991 (as Department of Special Telecommunication Systems and Information Protection of SSU)

Agency executive
  
Evdochenko Leonid Oleksandrovych, Director of the State Special Service

The Derzhspetszviazok or officially The State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Державна служба спеціального зв'язку та захисту інформації України; Derzhspetszviazok) is technical security and intelligence service of Ukraine, under the control of the President of Ukraine. The service was established in 2006, based on the dissolved Department of Special Telecommunication Systems and Information Protection (DSTSZI) of the Security Service of Ukraine.

The Administration has the status of the central executive body with special status.

Tasks and missions

  • conduct policy in the protection of state information resources in data networks,
  • provision of government communications, the national system of confidential communications, cryptographic and technical protection of state information.

    • References

    State Special Communications Service of Ukraine Wikipedia
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