{"id":22557,"date":"2020-03-03T20:36:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T04:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22557"},"modified":"2020-03-03T20:36:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T04:36:31","slug":"state-pledges-8m-to-ukraine-for-cyber-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22557","title":{"rendered":"State pledges $8M to Ukraine for cyber help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department on Tuesday announced that the U.S. would give Ukraine $8 million in cybersecurity assistance funds as part of a &#8220;cyber dialogue&#8221; held in Kyiv between officials from the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The $8 million will go toward funding a new cybersecurity project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with the project setting a goal of eventually investing $38 million over the next four years in boosting Ukraine&#8217;s cybersecurity capabilities, such as through cyber workforce development and regulatory reforms.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. previously gave Ukraine $10 million in cybersecurity assistance funds in 2017 as part of the first U.S.-Ukraine cyber dialogue summit, with officials from the two countries meeting again in 2018 to review cybersecurity projects between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department on Tuesday announced&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22558,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22557\/revisions\/22558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}