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Cyber risks management
The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge: what is at stake ?
By the Strategy Challenge team The ‘Cyber 9/12’ Strategy Challenge For the third consecutive year, the FIC will host, on 19, 20 and 21 January 2021, the French edition of the ‘Cyber 9/12’ Strategy Challenge, co-organized by the Atlantic Council, the GEODE project (Paris 8 University) and CEIS. Last year, the 2020 edition pitted a dozen teams of...
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Cybercrime
EncroChat : le chiffrement de bout en bout au service des criminels mis au clair
Par le Général Watin Augouard, FIC Le 2 juillet, lors d’une conférence de presse conjointe d’Europol et d’Eurojust, la gendarmerie nationale et la police néerlandaise ont annoncé avoir mis un terme à l’action de réseaux criminels grâce à la « neutralisation » du chiffrement de bout en bout du réseau téléphonique EncroChat que ces derniers utilisaient. Au-delà...
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Digital Transformation
Tracing, not Tracking (Général Watin-Augouard)
From tracking to tracing: one letter less seems to make a huge difference. In truth, the gap is wide open! On the one hand, geolocation tracking of people, with a profound invasion of privacy; on the other hand, the desire to reconcile freedom and health security, two principles of constitutional value. Recently, we quite rightly criticised...
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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
Coronavirus and Cyberattacks: the Government Threat of North Korea {Lexfo}
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...
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Legal Issues
Tracing, not Tracking (Général Watin-Augouard)
From tracking to tracing: one letter less seems to make a huge difference. In truth, the gap is wide open! On the one hand, geolocation tracking of people, with a profound invasion of privacy; on the other hand, the desire to reconcile freedom and health security, two principles of constitutional value. Recently, we quite rightly criticised...
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Operational security
Digital Sovereignty: It is High Time to Have a Rant and Take Action!
Stéphane Volant is the president of the CDSE (Corporate Security Directors’ Club), which brings together security and safety professionals from nearly 150 of France’s largest companies. In this capacity, he sits as a user representative on the board of the CSF (Sectoral Strategic Committee) of the Security Industries. Five months! Five months have elapsed since...
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Sector-based Approaches
The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge: what is at stake ?
By the Strategy Challenge team The ‘Cyber 9/12’ Strategy Challenge For the third consecutive year, the FIC will host, on 19, 20 and 21 January 2021, the French edition of the ‘Cyber 9/12’ Strategy Challenge, co-organized by the Atlantic Council, the GEODE project (Paris 8 University) and CEIS. Last year, the 2020 edition pitted a dozen teams of...
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