The Minister Delegate for the Digital Transition, Jean-Noël Barrot, announced this Wednesday in Rennes a series of measures to create a “cybernetic shield” aimed in particular at SMEs and communities, for an endowment of 30 million euros. Everything to help deal with cyberattacks.
“We want to strengthen these SMEs and ETI [entreprise de taille intermédiaire] that, because they are too small to have in-house cyber experts, they can represent a weak link and during an attack contaminate their stakeholders, customers or suppliers”, estimated Jean-Noël Barrot during a conference announcement on the occasion of the “European Cyber Week”.
This plan for 2023 of 30 million euros, which is in addition to the 20 million euros announced after the attack on the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital this summer, includes several components.
An anti-fraud filter can be installed in the browser or on a smartphone that will be a “first approach protection”.
“We want our fellow citizens to be able to see their protected data on sites that are not fraudulent sites, which are sites of private or public operators, but which can in turn be the object of cyberattacks and therefore can lead to the publication of data. ,” he said.
A “turnkey” tool
A free self-diagnosis tool will be developed for companies. In addition, for 750 SMEs and ETIs, the cyber shield will offer an audit and implementation of solutions and training.
For local authorities, which are affected by cyberattacks, as demonstrated by those that this year targeted Guingamp, Caen or the Seine-Maritime department, the plan will allow the expansion of reinforced security routes for 125 of them and new routes for another 50. By the end of 2023, more than 1,000 communities and administrations will have followed this security course.
Finally, for all municipalities, including the smallest ones, a shared services platform will be offered, with a “turnkey” tool based on a subscription where the State allows communities to benefit from a domain name, email and secure online hosting
The issue of cybersecurity “takes on a considerable scale”, affecting “all dimensions of the economic and social life of the Nation”, with almost every week “particularly spectacular attacks”, recalled Barrot.
Source: BFM TV
