At the time when digital attacks multiply, the sector is struggling to recruit. Grandes écoles undertook to prepare the new generation in digital security trades.
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It’s a tower planted in the middle of the Defense district, near Paris, a 13-storey totem and 25,000 square meters dedicated to the cybersecurity of France and Europe, which must open its doors. this spring. At the time when the war strikes in Ukraine, the inauguration of this Cyber campus, where there are 112 private and public actors from the sector, has been appointed. Industrialists, administrations and high schools of the cyber meet in this place to respond to concert to threats that target all the digital of our environment. They will like to find the parades and, for that, to train the Cybergardians of tomorrow.
Four higher education institutions participate in the project: Engineering schools Efrei, Epita, ESILV and Galileo Global Education Group. “The goal is to strengthen the bridge between training and professionalization, for our students to be closer to the labor market,” explains Max Aguh, head of the EFREI Security, Networks and Embedders. A rapprochement also accommodate companies. “Working with schools and universities allows us to reorient their programs according to our needs, to provide them with trainers and to ensure that training is concrete,” says Pierre-Yves Jolivet, General Manager of Cyber Fire Activities At Thales. Young graduates will be immediately employable, promise the actors of Campus Cyber.
The project was launched by Emmanuel Macron, who wanted, in France, an admiral ship of cybersecurity on the model of the Beer-Sheva Industrial Park in Israel, or that of Skolkovo in Russia. “There is a cruel lack of professionals in the world of digital security. The observation has been shared for several years by our entire ecosystem,” Alert Aurélie Bauer, Head of the Training Center for the Safety of Information Systems (CFSSI) of National Safety Agency for Systems of Information (ANSSI), Digital Security Gendarme. At the same time, the Agency notes “a constant improvement in malicious actors”. Between 2020 and 2021, the number of intrusions proven in reported information systems jumped 37% to exceed the thousand.
Torrent of potential faults
The year 2022 does not listen more calm. The crisis due to COVID-19 has multiplied the use of computer tools to allow remote work. A torrent of potential flaws and a bargain for hackers. “In two years, the number of attacks has been multiplied by four”, Measure Pierre-Yves Jolivet. The attackers are numerous and their varied profiles. According to A core ratio by Thales and the American company Verint , 5% are cyberporters, 20% of cybercriminals, 26% of hacktivists. The share of the Lion returns to the states (49%), which sponsor these operations for “espionage” purposes, points out the ANSSI.
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