1. Please introduce yourself. How do you deal with cybersecurity daily ? My name is Maarten Van Horenbeeck, I’m from Belgium, and a Board Member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), an international association of security teams at over 500 governments, corporations and universities. I’m also the Chief Information Security Officer…

On 2 July, at a joint Europol and Eurojust press conference, the French Gendarmerie and the Dutch police announced that they had put an end to criminal networks by “neutralising” the end-to-end encryption of the EncroChat telephone network used by the latter. Beyond the technical prowess, this action led to the arrest of several hundred French,…

A revolution with results that are difficult to predict Digitisation is not a fad phenomenon. What some once tended to see as an evolutionary process affecting information systems actually has a much broader scope and now affects all economic players. In Switzerland, this evolutionary process is perceived above all as an opportunity for sustainable development[1]….

(By Olivier Iteanu, Barrister) This is a rare case that the Conseil d’État [Council of State, French supreme court for administrative justice] informed us about in a decision rendered on 24 April 2019[1]. A gendarmerie captain was punished with fifteen days’ leave from work for illegally consulting “gendarmerie files”. These unlawful consultations concerned his daughter’s employer…

(by Army General (2S) Watin-Augouard, Founder of the FIC) The law announced by President Macron during his New Year speech to the press on 3 January 2017 has been promulgated following consideration by the Constitutional Council. The Council Members (‘Sages’) declared that the text was in conformity with the Constitution (Decision No. 2018-773 DC of 20 December 2018). Their only reservation…