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Cyber risks management
Overall Security of Critical Health Systems: Unite to Protect — The European SAFECARE Project (by Philippe Tourron)
The SAFECARE project (a project of the Horizon 2020 programme funded by the European Union) aims to unite partners that represent a broad spectrum of elements of physical and digital health systems in order to propose an innovative approach and system to respond to a need for "heightened vigilance," ultimately decreasing reaction time and aiding in decision-making during crisis management.
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Cybercrime
The Globalization of Criminal Evidence
Increasingly, evidence critical to ordinary criminal investigations is located across territorial borders. Before the rise of cloud computing, evidence of crimes generally was available within the requesting country’s territorial jurisdiction...
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Digital Transformation
Does European Cybersecurity Suffer from a Lack of Investments? (Interview of David Dana, EIF)
In cybersecurity specifically, the EIF has a policy-driven role. That’s because the European Commission identified it as a key sector, so the EIF is very keen in supporting investments in the sector, as long as they are combined with a strong commercial proposition...
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FIC Tech
Investment in cybersecurity: an upturn?
The theme of the latest FIC Observatory Breakfast was “How to accelerate investment in cybersecurity”. An opportunity to carry out a cross-examination of the subject as seen by the sector’s investment funds and start-ups Investment in France’s digital sector rose sharply in 2017, with €1.5 billion in new funds raised. While the number of companies involved was...
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Homeland security and Defense
Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge: Join the Strategy Challenge ! (By Frédéric Douzet, Institut Français de Géopolitique, et Safa Shahwan, Atlantic Council)
The rapid and dramatic propagation of recent attacks such as WannaCry and NotPetya has emphasized the systemic risk our companies and societies are exposed to and the clear intrication of geopolitical and cyber risks. Online influence operations, propaganda and information manipulations have revealed the potential for destabilization of social networks. Cyber threats are mutlidimensional, multifaceted...
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Legal Issues
Cybersecurity is forcing a rethink of strategic autonomy (By Paul Timmers, Oxford University)
Just a few days ago, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker presented his 2018 State of the Union speech with the title “The Hour of European Sovereignty”. In the speech, he argues that the time has come for the EU “to become more autonomous and live up to our global responsibilities”. The question is how to make...
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Operational security
Voting Machine : Challenges and opportunities in the DRC (by Chrysostome NKOUMBI-SAMBA, MBA MSDN)
3 November 2000: adoption of the Bamako Declaration, Section B of which emphasises the holding of free, reliable and transparent elections in the Francophone world. 13-14 October 2012: opening of the 14th Francophonie Summit in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Heads of State and Government of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) converged...
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Sector-based Approaches
Artificial Intelligence: A “Game Changer” for Cyber Defence (by Guillaume Tissier, CEIS)
Humans are unable to single-handedly deal with cyber attacks. This is the view shared by cybersecurity professionals. There are several reasons to this: the volume of attacks, their constant mutations, the speed of reaction they require, and the lack of expertise on the market. Artificial intelligence (AI), already widely used in fraud prevention, increasingly...
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