The digital transformation of Reunion companies today necessarily involves securing their IT data. For a year and a half, the Orange Cyberdefense agency of the Indian Ocean, based in Reunion, responds to this request for protection with material and human resources without equivalent on the island.
Orange is a leading company also in cybersecurity with 25 years of experience, for its internal needs, in the service of the State (administrations, army, etc.) and for eight years, serving private customers through its subsidiary Orange Cyberdefense. Present in the main cities of mainland France, Orange Cyberdefense opened its first overseas location in Reunion, a year and a half ago. Car, if cybercrime is without borders, " to be efficient, you have to be as close as possible to customers” judge Sébastien Herniote, son manager local. Cybersecurity solutions are essential among the range of Orange Business Services offers, the BtoB agency of Orange Réunion Mayotte. Phishing, Ransomware, president scam, spying, etc. : the cyber threat is growing exponentially and Reunion Island is no exception. “Pirates today know how to profit from their actions. A real cybercrime industry is in place. Companies can no longer avoid the subject. »
The three pillars of cyber defense
Orange Cyberdefense intervenes, upstream to help businesses, whatever their size, to raise the level of their IT security, downstream to help them get out of the rut when the attack took place. Through the human and technical resources that it is capable of mobilizing, this structure is without equivalent in Reunion. In addition to its four senior consultants and its technical team immediately available, it is connected to the Orange Cyberdefense national network, namely 200 consultants and Orange software and hardware resources. Orange indeed has its own cybersecurity “tools”. for example, the Malware Cleaner Kiosk which allows you to test and clean USB keys. Installed in a hall or premises accessible to all employees of a company, the use of this device is intended to become a sort of reflex and to develop a culture of IT security. “Empowerment of personnel is the first of the three fundamental pillars of cyberdefense” underlines Sébastien Herniote. The other two pillars are data backups, exhaustive and “protected, that is to say disconnected from the network” and the constant updating of hardware and software because “outdated equipment, even obsolete, increases the vulnerability of computer systems. »
Formation
Orange Cyberdefense Réunion is organizing a third one-week IT security training course in mid-September. These training courses are aimed at IT managers.
Au menu, skill gain
and exchange of experiences.
Contact : sebastien.herniote@orange.com.
