Resilience

DEFTECH-SCAN June 2021

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This DEFTECH SCAN reports on and assesses occurrences in military technology and capability development taking place from late March through late May. It contains reporting on recent activities and announcements in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Estonia, France, Russia, China, South Korea, Israel, Turkey, and Australia. It also covers multiple NATO activities and includes general commentary on developments related to emerging capabilities such as cognitive electronic warfare and drone swarms.

As with the March volume—and all DEFTECH SCANS moving forward—where appropriate this report emphasises the intersection between defence and security activity and the coronavirus pandemic.

Resilience: More fundamentally, the report has a strong focus on how militaries and security communities are improving resilience against an expanding set of challenges. The emphasis on resilience cuts across most sections of this report, including descriptions and analysis of:
• An effort to build more rugged stealthy materials to optimize performance in harsh conditions;
• The vulnerability to cyber-attacks of both industry and infrastructure in different countries and of the efforts to build resilience to these increasingly prevalent and damaging attacks;
• Plans to build proliferated space architectures of small satellites in part designed to enhance resilience of crucial space-based capabilities.

Other key themes and insights from the report include:

Key Events: The reporting period saw several significant events that demonstrate the role emerging defence technologies and activity in the cyber and space domain and the electromagnetic spectrum are playing in shaping the future of conflict and prioritised military capabilities. Four events stand out:
• The role of Israel’s Iron Dome short-range missile defence system played in the 11-day Israel Hamas conflict in May;
• An increase in cyber-attacks against both industry and critical infrastructure, including a ransomware attack against oil pipelines in the United States that led to a run on gas across much of the East Coast of the U.S;
• The U.S. Army awarding a $22 billion dollar contract to Microsoft for 120,000 augmented reality headsets that will drive the technology forward for both military and commercial applications;
• The release of UN report that confirmed the first known use of a lethal autonomous weapons system against humans during the conflict in Libya in 2020.

Meeting Novel Threats: Enhancing Collaboration and Flexibility: This reporting period once again demonstrates the need for collaboration—between civilian government and militaries, between national governments, and between militaries and academia and industry—to meet the threats facing defence and security communities.

The reporting period also highlighted the emerging need for militaries to develop flexible and layered solutions that can reduce risk and ensure operational efficacy in different contexts and operational environments. For example, militaries are devising multiple new technologies and operational concepts to intercept small uncrewed aerial systems, including techniques designed to bring down these systems with little to no collateral damage in populated areas in addition to kinetic means of destroying drones. Similarly, multiple exercises in the reporting period demonstrated the mission flexibility of uncrewed ground vehicles (UGV) and the ability of some UGVs to serve in multiple supporting functions depending on the situation with only limited modifications.

Source : DEFTECH

DEFTECH-SCAN March 2021

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This DEFTECH SCAN reports on and assesses occurrences in military technology and capability development taking place from late January 2021 through to late March. It contains reporting on recent activities and announcements in the United Kingdom (UK), United States (U.S.), Finland, Sweden, Australia, Israel, Germany. India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Armenia, and the Republic of South Africa.

This report contains also new features that will be incorporated into DEFTECH SCANS going forward. First, where appropriate, it seeks to highlight how defence and security communities are meeting the challenge of Covid-19 both in terms of mitigating the current risks to personnel, societies, and operations and preparing to better meet the biological threats of the future.

Closely related to the increased attention to how technology is supporting defence and security community responses to Covid-19 is the paper’s emphasis on the importance of resilience—again, in response to Covid-19 and other biological and environmental threats as well as prioritized military capabilities, such as space architectures.

Finally, the Executive Summary boxes for two sections in this report include descriptions of articles or papers published on topics that are regularly covered in DEFTECH SCANS, but that are not featured in the text of the section. This approach allows for high-level updates of general reporting on key topics— for example, growing interest in hybrid engines—in a more efficient manner.

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L’EGE publie un guide pratique sur la gestion de crise cyber pour les PME

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Lors du Forum International sur la Cybersécurité qui s’est tenu à Lille en Janvier 2020, le Directeur Général de l’Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information (ANSSI), Guillaume Poupard a déclaré: « si toutes les TPE/PME françaises venaient à subir de vastes attaques informatiques sur une courte période de temps, cela pourrait engendrer un désastre économique ».

La Confédération des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises (CPME) estime même que 4 entreprises sur 10 de moins de 50 salariés ont été victimes d’une cyberattaque en 2019. Etant donné que les TPE, PME et ETI représentent 99,8% des entreprises française et emploient 1 Français sur 5 le risque de déstabilisation de l’économie tout entière par des opérations de cyberattaques massives est réel. Si les grandes entreprises, à l’image de St-Gobain avec l’attaque NotPetya en 2017, ont la capacité d’absorber le choc (tout de même 220 millions de perte de chiffre d’affaire), les plus petites
entreprises ne sont pas du tout armées pour surmonter de tels attaques.

Quelques chiffres clés expliquent l’engouement des cybercriminels pour les PME :

  • 65% des PME ne dispose d’aucune politique de protection des données.3
  • 10% des dépôts de plainte pour acte de cybercriminalité donnent lieu à des condamnations
  • 96% des attaquants parviennent à percer les différents rideaux défensifs des PME
  • 58% des dirigeants de PME ne mesurent pas le risque des cyberattaques

D’autant plus qu’avec les nouveaux usages qui s’installent dans les entreprises et notamment le télétravail, utilisation de multiples terminaux tels qu’ordinateurs personnels non sécurisés, téléphone portable, les risques ont explosé et les attaques aussi. Face à ce constat alarmant les PMEs française n’ont autre choix que de réagir très fortement. Il faut absolument en finir avec le discours de l’entreprise qui n’a pas de valeur pour des cybercriminels.

De trop nombreuses entreprises ont une sécurité des systèmes d’information totalement défaillante. Les investissements en solutions de cybersécurité ont certes augmenté, mais la bonne utilisation de ces outils et l’éducation des employés demeurent de trop gros points noirs.

Afin de permettre aux dirigeants de PME et aux responsables de la sécurité de ces entreprises d’avoir une meilleure connaissance des enjeux, une maîtrise des outils à leur disposition et une prise de décision et mise en œuvre de la stratégie de défense, nous proposons dans ce guide pratique une méthodologie de gestion de crise cyber qui permettra aux dirigeants de PME de prendre les premières mesures nécessaires pour protéger l’avenir de leurs sociétés et par conséquent de la sécurité économique de la France.

Source et guide complet : Ecole de Guerre Economique