Cybersecurity, from science to business and society

By PEPR cybersécurité¹ with the participation of SWHsec².

In a playful and interactive way, the session will consist of an overview of the major security challenges in the broadest sense: post-quantum cryptography, privacy, security assessment, personal and industrial data protection, messaging application security, hardware security with equipment of foreign origin, AI security and the use of AI in cybersecurity, malware/ransomware attacks with a dual cybercriminal and state approach; security supervision; social engineering, money laundering...

Through the organization of interactive workshops and games, and the presentation of testimonials and expert opinions, major issues will be presented, as well as the specific hard points of each issue justifying scientific research. By specifying the objectives that science has set itself to meet these challenges, the expected impact for industry and society will be explored with the public.

The session will be organized around several major focal points: security assessment, data protection, malicious intent... It will bring together not only the scientists involved in the projects, but also high-level experts and witnesses from the worlds of industry, associations and institutions, to take a comprehensive look at the issues at stake, encompassing legal and societal aspects beyond the technical aspects.

1 The Cybersecurity Priority Research Program and Equipment (PEPR), launched in 2022 as part of France 2030's National Cybersecurity Strategy, plays a key role in strengthening national capabilities. The scope and distribution of the 10 projects funded allows us to consider methods for protecting the entire cybersecurity chain. This includes, for example, a sovereign solution for electronic voting, and evaluation methods across all layers, from hardware to embedded systems and application software.

Involving 300 researchers from major organizations such as CEA, CNRS and Inria, as well as 23 universities and grandes écoles, the PEPR Cybersecurity program mobilizes several disciplines to structure a robust national industry. It is fully in line with France 2030's ambition to make cybersecurity a lever of competitiveness and sovereignty for the French economy.

Web site : https://www.pepr-cybersecurite.fr/

With funding of 65 million euros over six years, this program aims to produce scientific breakthroughs and encourage the emergence of breakthrough technologies in cybersecurity. Its aim is twofold: to protect France's critical infrastructures, and to guarantee the country's technological independence from foreign powers.

2 The SoftWare Heritage initiative (https://www.softwareheritage.org/) aims to build a universal software archive, the “Alexandria Library of Software”, and is the world's largest accessible open source code archive.

The Software Heritage Sec research project (https://swhsec.github.io/), aims to explore the new possibilities offered by the massive availability of code in Software Heritage, in order to study the issues of open source security, code security and the build chain. SWHsec is a project motivated and financed by the PTCC.