Cybersecurity is a strategic matter for our country. Now more than ever – in our highly, sometimes overly, interconnected world – the question of data protection and of defending our privacy, our health, our inventions, and our most efficient industrial methods is pivotal to safeguarding our social and economic model. These various protection measures are not only…
Homeland security and Defense
(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…
2020/05/19
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…
2020/01/22
Cybersecurity is not a new problem. What is new is the impact that cybersecurity has on society, amplified by the complexity and pervasiveness of modern systems. From the email servers in the 1990s, to the credit card information in the 2000s, to national critical infrastructures and the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizen in the…
(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…
2019/05/07
(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…
