Research

Publications

Peer-reviewed work on cybersecurity, critical infrastructure resilience, SIEM operations, IoT security under electronic warfare, and crisis governance.

2026

2026 Operational Resilience of Municipal IT Infrastructure Under Active Hostilities: A Kyiv Case Study on Digital Service Continuity, Cybersecurity, and Crisis Governance

Chernikov, P. (2026). Knowledge, Education, Law, Management, 2(78), 216–224. https://doi.org/10.51647/kelm.2026.2.29

First operational account of maintaining digital continuity for a major European capital under simultaneous cyberattacks and kinetic strikes. Documents SOC decision-making, infrastructure architecture, and lessons for urban resilience planners.
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2026 Urban LoRaWAN Resilience under EW Interference: An Operational Model for Municipal Networks

Chernikov, P. (2026). Electronics and Control Systems, 1(87), 63–69. https://doi.org/10.18372/1990-5548.87.20885

Practical model for maintaining IoT/LoRaWAN network integrity under active electronic warfare jamming, derived from operational experience with Kyiv's municipal sensor network.
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2025

2025 Cyber Defense of Urban Digital Systems: Scaling SIEM Correlation to Reduce Incidents in a Wartime City

Chernikov, P. (2025). Cybersecurity: Education, Science, Technique, 3(31), 773–780. https://doi.org/10.28925/2663-4023.2025.31.1066

Describes the engineering approach to reducing SIEM alert fatigue (~90% false-positive reduction) while scaling to cover 1,800+ urban endpoints under active threat conditions.
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