FRANCK GREVERIE, HEAD OF CYBERSECURITY

What is cyber security?It s about protecting the digi-tal world from external threats, but also sometimes against human handling errors or intentional internal misconduct. There are three main kinds of external threats: cyberattacks by militants fighting for a particular cause, organized crime, and hackers paid by governments.

In recent years, cybercrime has sup- plied an organized and structured black market offering digital contraband such as email addresses, passwords, pat- ents and other kinds of sensitive data. Cybersecurity must therefore protect information systems, but also the con- fidentiality and integrity of the data they contain, while ensuring access to autho- rized users. Cybersecurity is as much about people as it is about technology. You have to teach best practices and implement an effective security policy.

Why should customers care? Because it takes six months to rebuild an information system after an attack. Because the risks are increasing and the consequences of cyber attacks are more and more serious. Hackers have become true professionals. They start by doing careful research. They then find a small weakness where they break into a system. They do every- thing it takes to stay off the radar for as long as possible. Sometimes a year or two will go by before a breach is detected. This leaves them plenty of time to find what they are looking for. Today there can be no digital trans- formation without cybersecurity! Our clients have realized this and our role is to help them implement it.

There can be no digital transformation without cybersecurity!

Cybersecurity must protect information

systems, but also the confidentiality and

integrity of the data they contain.

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