The Minister Delegate for the Digital Transition and Telecommunications, Jean-Noël Barrot, announced on Thursday the establishment of an "anti-scam filter" to protect Internet users.
A test version will be released in the summer of 2023 before generalization in the summer of 2024.
This "simple, optional and free" tool was one of Emmanuel Macron's commitments during the presidential campaign.
It will preventively filter web addresses corresponding to malicious sites, whether browsing the Internet is done from a landline or mobile.
A "cyber-score" launched at the end of 2023
"We are all concerned and affected, the cyber threat has even gone from the status of an exception to a daily phenomenon," said Jean-Noël Barrot on Thursday, recalling that 500 people asked for help every day on the platform. government dedicated.
“In 2021, nearly one in two businesses and one in three communities reported being victims of a cyberattack.
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The Minister Delegate also announced the implementation of a "cyber-score" at the end of 2023, on the same model as the Nutri-Score.
This will allow Internet users to know “the level of security of their data on the sites and social networks they use”.
Jean-Noël Barrot also announced that Anssi, the public agency which watches over French computer security, will see its workforce "substantially strengthen" in the coming years with the recruitment of "fifty new experts" from 2023. So many measures aimed at combating, among other things, ransomware attacks, the number of which is exploding in France and around the world.
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