Smart Cybersecurity?

The prefix “cyber” has been used in many terms like cybercrime, cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare, although often with unclear definitions. Differentiation was often based on the origin of a threat (criminal networks, terrorists) or target of an attack (critical infrastructures, money).

The prefix “smart” is likely even more troublesome to define, and it is certainly more misused. According to Encyclopedia Britannica it is “…ability to adapt effectively to the environment...”.

Nevertheless…I will be talking about “smart cybersecurity”.

Over the last years, Atos has been investing heavily in new technologies and methodologies to improve the state-of-the-art in cybersecurity, sometimes through collaborative R&D projects co-financed through H2020 program. On November 23rd I will give a short introduction to “Smart Cybersecurity” during our annual internal event called Digital Show, where several H2020 project results are going to be presented with their demos.

We will see how to deal with the emergence of new and increasingly dangerous potential threat vectors, how to address the increasing openness and vulnerability of high-impact targets such as critical infrastructures, how to improve the speed of incident response, how to preserve or improve data protection and privacy or how to reduce identity fraud.  

Digital Show will run for the whole week, with the other days being dedicated to continuum computing, artificial intelligence and blockchain.