France: the State launches a new alert system against cybercrime
According to Anssi, the National Information Systems Security Authority, cyberattacks have increased fourfold in 2020. Fred TANNEAU AFP / Archivos
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In a context of increasing digitization, cyber attacks are on the increase in the world.
In France, the government is convinced that the response must be equal to this threat.
The State has decided to launch a new alert system for companies in the event of a major cyber incident.
It was presented this Tuesday, July 20 by Cédric O, Secretary of State for the Digital Transition in the presence of representatives of employers and experts.
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Often, in the event of a computer hack, companies find themselves alone.
There is now a national alert that will help them adopt the right actions in the event of a threat.
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This device is intended to alert business leaders when a vulnerability, that is to say a software that they use, is potentially fallible in the face of a cyber attack, to inform them that this software has a vulnerability, and above all to tell them that there is a fix, an update, a solution: apply the patch that will allow you to protect yourself against possible cyberattacks
”, explains Jérôme Notin, general manager of Action contre la cyber-malware.
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The crisis has fostered an explosion of cyber attacks.
Nearly one in two French companies has already been the victim of this type of threat, specifies Christian Poyau, co-president of the Medef technological change commission: “
At the level of large companies, there have been more than
2,000 attacks.
This figure should be extrapolated to SMEs and very small businesses.
It is certainly several tens of thousands of companies.
It's an important subject, but there are ways to deal with it without it becoming a dramatic subject.
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According to Anssi, the National Information Systems Security Authority, cyber attacks have increased fourfold in 2020.
Visit of @XXII_GROUP with @cedric_o: “the crisis has accelerated digital transit ° and with it cyber risks.
At the initiative of MEDEF, an alert system adapted to VSEs / SMEs was developed with @ANSSI_FR, @cybervictimes and State Secretariat in charge of Digital »@cpoyau pic.twitter.com/RTWmOvIAqx
- Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux (@GeoffroyRDB) July 20, 2021
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