Cybersecurity and Decision Makers. Marie De Fréminville

their cyber performance? Data governance, data security: integrity, confidentiality and accessibility, protection of the personal data they collect, use and archive, protection of computer systems that allow the exchange, storage and modification of these data.

      A company may be financially successful, but a failure of its IT system or digital security can seriously affect its ability to sell or produce, to pay its suppliers, to exchange with its subcontractors and thus degrade its financial results, its reputation and the confidence of shareholders and stakeholders.

Cyber-risks are not the prerogative of a handful of specialists in the company but affect overall governance. In addition to the regulatory obligations regarding data security, it is a matter of protecting the company against the risk of loss of value, linked, for example, to the dissemination of confidential information.

“All connected, all committed, all responsible” is the slogan communicated by Guillaume Poupard, ANSSI‘s Director General at FIC 2019¹, from top to bottom and from bottom to top of private or public organizations: the board of directors, the executive committee and all the teams.

      The trade war between major powers is more media-intensive than cyberwarfare, which is a weapon widely used by States, terrorist and criminal organizations, or corporations (spying). In addition, data collection is at the heart of the digital economy of the 21st Century, built around data valorization. This economy is currently dominated by the American and Chinese Internet giants. Finally, cybercriminals exploit the many vulnerabilities of digital tools, the human vulnerabilities generated by organizations that have not adapted, processes that have not been updated and collaborators that have not been trained.

      There are cyberdeaths among the victims. Cyber-silence is a barrier to awareness. Finally, there are too many executives and directors burying their heads in the sand.

      1 1 11th edition of the International Cybersecurity Forum (FIC).