On 13 June 2019, ACYMA launched a new version of the digital risk awareness kit of Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr. One year after the release of the first part of the kit, 5 new themes and 4 new formats are added to this new version. This tool was developed through months of collaboration between public institutions, private organisations and member associations of the…

From FIC 2019[i] to PWC[ii] and Kaspersky[iii] —to mention only the most recent sources— it is now widely acknowledged that the techno-centric approach to cybersecurity has had its day. According to Deloitte[iv], 63% of security incidents within a company are linked to a malicious action or to an error made by an employee. It is therefore…

Last weekend, the media has widely communicated on the consequences of an unprecedented attack that targeted the domain names. Indeed, during the night of 22-23 February ICANN reported the large-scale attacks on the domain names: it is DNS hijacking. These attacks consist in “replacing the authorized servers addresses with addresses of machines controlled by the…

Operating one’s own local DNS resolution servers is one of the simplest and lowest-cost things an IT administrator can do to monitor and protect applications, services, and users from potential risks. A non-networked computer is very rare now because most useful work involves data and services that are distributed across some kind of “internet” — that…

Cybersecurity is everybody’s business. Is it enough to have found a rare gem: an excellent Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)? How does this person interact with the business’s core and support functions? How is he or she “connected” to the executive committee and the board of directors? How do companies interact with suppliers, clients, partners, IT…