(By Holger KNAPPENSCHNEIDER, Managing Partner at IDA Group) The usage of communications and disinformation with a strategic agenda is extraordinarily subtle in nature, and thus much more threatening. It hides behind Facebook, Google, tweets and chats, and appears to the reader primarily as the opinion of supposedly well-known counterparts.  This provides the opportunity for foreign…

The hacking of the AP-HP hospital group in Paris, in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, is reminiscent of one of the most bitter cybercrime laws: as in nature, cyberattackers always favour the weakest or most fragile link. While these crimes fuel the imagination of the hooded cyber offender, our political leaders would do well to…

(by Yugo Neumorni, Cybersecurity Council Chairman, European CIO Association) When the financial institutions were defeated by the cyber-attacks in the early years of the 21st century the industrial sector was not so much concerned. It was obvious that the cybercriminals were looking for money and credit cards details, and they had little or no interest in…

(by Caitríona Heinl, EXEDEC) The first EU-Singapore Security Think Tank Dialogue was held in Singapore at the end of January at the initiative of the EU Delegation to Singapore in order to promote greater EU-Singapore political and security cooperation [1]. Three policy areas were chosen for discussion, namely maritime security, cybersecurity, and counter-terrorism. While cyber-related questions…

‘Géopolitique de la Datasphère’ (GEODE) is a research and training centre dedicated to the study of the strategic and geopolitical challenges of the digital revolution.  Backed by Université Paris 8 as part of the French Geopolitics Institute (IFG), it is rooted in a pure tradition of innovation in the human and social sciences as well as the experimental…