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Cyber risks management
Making Humans the Strong Link in the IS Defence Chain (by Cyril Bras, CISO, Grenoble-Alpes Métropole)
The panorama of cyberthreats put together by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) in January 2019 (ENISA, 2019) firmly situates the end user as the primary target of cyber attackers. These attackers understand that humans are the weak link in the cybersecurity chain at the level of the individual, business and government. However, this weakness can conceivably...
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Cybercrime
Ransomware in Six Questions (by the Ministerial Delegation to the Security Industries and the Fight Against Cyberthreats, French Ministry of the Interior)
What is ransomware? Ransomware is malicious software. Ransomware programs are computer viruses. These viruses block access to information systems or data stored on the victim’s computer or server, then demand that the victim pay a ransom to unblock said access, although it is never guaranteed that it will actually be unblocked. Whom does ransomware...
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Digital Transformation
Making Humans the Strong Link in the IS Defence Chain (by Cyril Bras, CISO, Grenoble-Alpes Métropole)
The panorama of cyberthreats put together by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) in January 2019 (ENISA, 2019) firmly situates the end user as the primary target of cyber attackers. These attackers understand that humans are the weak link in the cybersecurity chain at the level of the individual, business and government. However, this weakness can conceivably...
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FIC Tech
Securing Our Communications: From Email to WhatsApp and Beyond (By Thomas Baignères and Matthieu Finiasz, OLVID)
When Ray Tomlinson sent “QWERTYUIOP” over the ARPANET in July 1971, he probably did not suspect that this would be the beginning of a communication system that would be used by billions of people for more than 40 years. Today, six billion addresses exchange more than 150 million emails every minute (two out of three of which are of a dubious...
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Homeland security and Defense
The “Mole” from the Power Grid (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 the operational field of heavy industry. Why would a...
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Legal Issues
Why cybersecurity is a human rights issue, and it is time to start treating it like one (by Deborah Brown & Anriette Esterhuysen, Association for progressive communications)
In his first address at the high level opening of the UN General Assembly in 2017, Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted escalating cybersecurity threats as a leading threat to international security. In addition to the threat of cyberwar, cyberattacks have resulted in the closure of hospitals, have taken electrical grids offline, brought major cities to a standstill, and even affected the integrity...
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Operational security
Securing Our Communications: From Email to WhatsApp and Beyond (By Thomas Baignères and Matthieu Finiasz, OLVID)
When Ray Tomlinson sent “QWERTYUIOP” over the ARPANET in July 1971, he probably did not suspect that this would be the beginning of a communication system that would be used by billions of people for more than 40 years. Today, six billion addresses exchange more than 150 million emails every minute (two out of three of which are of a dubious...
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Sector-based Approaches
Digital Identity: Europe vs. the United States of America: The Game is not Over (by André Viau, co-founder of the ID Forum)
It is to be hoped that, in a few months’ time, the French Government will announce the measures it intends to adopt to provide citizens with a sovereign digital identity. In light of the experience gained, the preparatory work and the initiatives taken—from France Connect to Alicem—it is likely that these decisions will put an...
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