DIGITAL SECURITY OF FOREST INFORMATION SYSTEMS: ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS

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🔬研究者:Highlights the intersection of cybersecurity and forest carbon accounting, a niche but growing area for climate disclosure research.

🏢実務担当者:Forest operators and certification bodies should assess digital resilience of their information systems to maintain EUDR and certification compliance.

🏛政策担当者:Reinforces the need for cybersecurity standards in national forest monitoring systems, especially for EUDR and LULUCF reporting.

The article examines the issues of digital security of Forest Information Systems (FIS) in the context of the increasing digitalization of the forestry sector and the intensification of climate-related challenges. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the priority directions for ensuring the digital resilience of the forest sector of Ukraine through the systematization of economic and environmental risks and the consequences of cyber threats for forest information systems. It is substantiated that modern FIS, which integrate data from satellite monitoring, geographic information systems, national inventories, electronic timber accounting and early fire detection platforms, have become a critically important infrastructure for forest resource management. The study reveals that along with the increase in the efficiency of forest management, digitalization creates a new spectrum of cyber threats, the implementation of which can cause systemic economic losses (disruption of auctions, distortion of accounting, risk of loss of international FSC/PEFC certificates) as well as significant environmental consequences (incorrect fire monitoring, complicated control of illegal logging, inaccuracy of data on the carbon balance). It was found that a breach of FIS digital security directly affects Ukraine's implementation of the EUDR requirements, which enter into force on December 30, 2026, and on national reporting in the Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector. The main groups of cyber risks are systematized and priority areas for ensuring the digital sustainability of the Ukrainian forest sector are proposed, taking into account European experience and the requirements of the ISO/IEC 27001 standard. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the systematization of digital threats to FIS and substantiation of their impact on the economic efficiency of the forest sector, the reliability of environmental monitoring and management decision-making in the field of sustainable forest management.

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