The development of computer security is favored by the government. The executive wants to massively increase its investments in digital in its draft law of orientation and programming of the Ministry of the Interior (Lopmi) by devoting half of the additional 15 billion euros announced by Emmanuel Macron.
“Investments in cyber represent 50% of the additional envelope announced”, or 7.5 billion euros over five years, we learned Tuesday from the Ministry of the Interior. However, the future of this bill, which will be presented in early March in the Council of Ministers, is suspended for the presidential election. It therefore constitutes in the current state the security program of the future candidate Macron.
Darmanin wants to digitize all official documents
On Monday, during his trip to Nice, the Head of State insisted at length on the need to fight against cyber delinquency, evoking the creation of cyber patrollers. The ambition of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin is to digitize all official documents (identity cards, driving licenses, gray cards, etc.) and criminal proceedings (registration of the complaint, hearing, signature, etc. ). The ministry has thus mandated a start-up to digitally transcribe the voices of children during their hearing, which is not currently possible.
In the short term, it is also for the government to equip itself with all the tools necessary to secure the major sporting events to come, such as the Rugby World Cup in 2023 and the Olympic Games in 2024. During the Games of Tokyo, which took place without an audience because of the pandemic, “the main challenge for the authorities was to manage the cyber threat”, had also explained in October, General Marc Boget, commander of the gendarmerie in cyberspace. “He had then billions of cyber events identified and 70,000 verified alerts to verify during the twenty days of the competition, or 3,500 per day.”
A billion for the Olympics
For the 2024 Games in Paris, the authorities expect an astronomical figure, of “the order of 400,000 cyber attacks”. It is planned to devote “one billion euros” of investment to securing the event (new crisis center, cameras in the stadiums, means of combating drones, etc.). The LREM deputy of the Loire, Jean-Michel Mis, was in charge of a report on new technologies and artificial intelligence that he will soon submit to the government.