What is the mission of Espace Technologie?
The IT world is dense and its professions are very different. The problems are just as diverse. Espace Technologie helps VSEs and SMEs to see things more clearly. Our company brings together 12 complementary skills centers, led by specialists and experts in their field :
- Security and backup;
- Cloud;
- cyber security;
- telecommunications;
- Applications development;
- servicing and maintenance services;
- Objects connected to the company;
- Software and training;
- Internet ;
- Infrastructure and networks;
- New and refurbished equipment;
- Printing and consumables.
The objective, to find in Espace Technologie a single point of contact to respond to all the bricks of our clients’ information systems. Today we have more than 4,500 clients under a maintenance contract.
How do you ensure the cybersecurity of your customers?
There are several types of threats: those that come from the Internet, and those that are within the company. However, traditional solutions (antivirus, firewall, antispam, etc.) are no longer enough to protect against a cyberattack, especially if it is based on digital identity theft (the main focus of hackers since the explosion of teleworking).
Conventional safeguards are ineffective in protecting against insider risks (theft, exfiltration, deletion, compromise –voluntary or not– of data, industrial espionage, fraud or revenge, etc.). They are also useless when a hacker has managed to penetrate the corporate network by hacking into a user account.
There are now complementary solutions that detect anomalies and unusual behavior on the corporate network. They then alert the IT administrator to a potential attack or unusual behavior in progress. However, these solutions are very expensive, and are mainly aimed at large groups. Also, VSEs and SMEs do not have IT experts to help them analyze alerts. Therefore, Espace Technologie has worked to establish an equally effective solution for smaller players.
Our cyber department has worked with our developers to develop a cyber surveillance solution, compatible with the budgets of VSEs and SMEs. Suspicious incidents in our clients are detected automatically. Our monitoring service analyzes on behalf of our clients the different problems that occur in their network, and blocks any criminal action. Espace Technologie performs the work of an IT Security Manager for them. In summary, we implement a monitoring solution for our clients, and our teams intervene in the event of an alert to clear up doubts. Built-in artificial intelligence automatically blocks any known attack in real time.
Our cybersecurity division acts as an advisor to carry out inventories, audits and intrusion tests. We don’t stop there! We recommend the solutions to implement to effectively protect our clients, taking into account the budgetary and human resources issues of small and medium-sized companies. We work in accordance with ANSSI recommendations and have obtained the “Cyber Security Expert” label issued by Cybermalveillance.gouv.
How do you carry out this inventory with your clients?
Our services vary according to the size of the companies. Espace Technologie offers two types of inventory:
- A technical inventory analyze existing security vulnerabilities and recommend technical defense and data protection solutions;
- An organizational inventory, to ensure that the client is familiar with the mapping of their information system. An Espace Technologie expert checks all your means of defense, whether technical or administrative:
- Do you have the right contract, the right IT charter with your employees? Who is responsible in case of loss of data stored in a Cloud? ;
- Who is responsible for the backup process? What are your remedies in case of data theft? ;
- Does insurance cover cyber risks?
This support is necessary, because we see in the field that the vast majority of VSEs/SMEs entrust their data to a service provider. without even reading your cloud hosting contract… Sometimes it is tragic to see that the business manager is not informed that the service provider is not responsible or even responsible for backing up the hosted data…
In your opinion, what are the surveillance points in terms of cybersecurity?
There is an exponential increase in cyber attacks! In my opinion, this growth is due, among other things, to a change in the modus operandi of hackers. In the past, attack solutions were organized and developed to take action. From now on, its operation is inspired by the SaaS (Software As A Service) model. They develop effective solutions which they then rent to small computer criminals. Your “customers” don’t need specific skills: training sessions lasting a few hours are enough.
Tutorials teach them how to attack themselves. Thus, if a few attacking experts praise their solutions, thousands of cybercriminals can attack companies… Generally, they have small, poorly defended companies in their hands and, therefore, easy prey. Hence the interest in acting as Espace Technologie does. Democratize effective cybersecurity solutions, it also means defending the French economic fabricrich in a multitude of small businesses.
In addition to cybersecurity, what are the current issues that concern you?
Espace Technologie is very sensitive to the fact that The IT industry is one of the most polluting and energy consuming.. We are attentive to our energy consumption and we have been working in favor of the circular economy for many years. Our teams in charge of technology are careful to select equipment that consumes little energy, with a high rate of repairability (energy consumption varies from 1 to 4 depending on the computer model).
With our partner LEASECOM, we have developed a scalable equipment rental solution. The equipment is rented for 2 or 3 years, it is reconditioned and rented again at a lower cost for young companies, associations, low-budget schools… Our goal is to offer at least 3 life cycles to computer equipment.
In addition, we have established reinvestment plans with our clients to recover IT products that they no longer use. this circuit of remanufacturing It allows us to recycle computers, printers and all other computing devices, for a more responsible consumption. Our development department is currently working on the design of software connected to an application to manage the shutdown of equipment at rest and the energy consumption of terminals and servers.
Our big challenge for 2023? The expansion of our Data Center, equipped with a backup power supply powered by solar energy.
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Source: BFM TV
