Innovations and Cyber Strategies Day
PITCH
In continuation of the previous edition, COMCYBER, Nokia, Orange Innovation, and La Ruche Thales are co-organizing with the support of the Brittany Region and the Cyber Center of Excellence the "Cyber Innovations and Strategies Day."
This day, open to all participants of the European Cyber Week, will be an opportunity to discuss "Cybersecurity to sustain our societies."
More than ever, we must understand and face digital technologies with the challenge of defending our economic and societal interests; the exponential growth of innovations, uses, and possibilities of the cloud, AI, ... constantly reshuffles the cards of Cyber.
Our societies are our companies and also our public institutions, which operate in different activity sectors. To endure, they must anticipate, innovate, develop, and protect themselves in an increasingly open, complex, and interdependent technological context.
Our Society is a common good, now severely tested by increasingly effective targeted attacks on each business sector: Energy, supply chain, transport... thereby detrimental to our model of freedom of information, the guarantor of our democracy.
This day will give us the opportunity to discuss these issues that concern all of us.
PROGRAM
9.00 Introduction and overview of the day
Perspective and actions to front foreign influence operations
9.30/10.30 Information, Misinformation, and Democracies
The year 2024 is an exceptional year in terms of elections worldwide. Unprecedentedly, more than half of the global citizens are voting in 2024.
Cyberattacks, regardless of their forms and origins, are sources of influence and can politically sway a state.
How do our national mainstream medias are organizing themselves to innovate and provide real-time information while ensuring its accuracy.
Our panel discussion on this societal issue will bring together experts in information threats, media, cyber startups, and academics to provide an overview of the current and future challenges and risks.
11.00/12.00 Systems of systems: a cybersecurity challenge! Industrial illustrations
Over the years and technological advancements, our production tools have evolved into open systems (IoT), closed systems (SCADA), or even hybrid systems (a combination of both).
The importance of cybersecurity is undeniable, given the recurring attacks.
While this challenge is well-known, its implementation in our production chains remains a daunting task that innovations could help to solve.
This exchange session will provide an opportunity to present the state of the art, compare possible approaches based on the inherent challenges of different types of businesses and technologies.
It will also address a related aspect: training to meet this challenge.
13.30/15.00 AI, Quantum: a new Cyber paradigm
AI is becoming integrated into our society and businesses. It is becoming both a foundational element and a tool for attack and defense.
The introduction of AI brings about a complexification of attack types that is difficult to measure.
Generative AI will further accelerate this trend.
How can cybersecurity teams anticipate, innovate, and utilize AI themselves to better defend against these threats?
Furthermore, quantum technology is emerging with increasingly advanced players. The anticipated arrival of this new paradigm, combined with AI, will disrupt cybersecurity.
Our guests will share their experiences and insights to shed light on these two revolutions.
15.30/17.00 Our networked society: submarine cables, the realization of the global village.
Nowadays, 99% of intercontinental internet traffic flows through a few hundred submarine cables, and recent events of suspected sabotage have brought these infrastructures into the spotlight.
Why have these submarine cables become so important? What technologies are used, and what are the prospects? What are the cybersecurity risks?
These are some of the questions that will be addressed during this session to clarify the strategic importance of optical networks.
Dive into this invisible and strategic world with our speakers.
17.00 Conclusion of the day