CYBERSECURITY LUXEMBOURG & Campus Cyber France to announce a future collaboration

Intensifying and strengthening European efforts in cybersecurity

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During a press conference on the occasion of the Paris Cyber Week, François Thill, Director Cybersecurity and Digital Technologies at the Ministry of the Economy, Luxembourg, and Michel Van Den Berghe, President of Campus Cyber France, announced the will to collaborate intensively with the aim of creating a European cybersecurity satellite.

Soon, the Campus Cyber will be a totem of cybersecurity that will gather the main actors of the field.

“Luxembourg shares the same ideas as the Cyber Campus in terms of cybersecurity. Luxembourg bases its work on 3 leitmotivs:

  • cybersecurity is a very strong business factor for the economy
  • cybersecurity is discriminating from a cost and complexity point of view
  • cybersecurity is an extremely collaborative field”, François Thill, Director Cybersecurity and Digital Technologies at the Ministry of the Economy, Luxembourg.

“We are very proud to be able to collaborate with the Cyber Campus in Paris, as we will be able to unleash synergies to intensify innovation in the field of cybersecurity”, he added.

Towards a trustworthy digital society

The Cyber Campus plans to implement actions aimed at federating the cybersecurity community and developing synergies between these different players.

“The Cyber Campus will bring together more than 2,000 cybersecurity experts. The entire ecosystem will be brought together in this Cyber Campus”, explains Michel Van Den Berghe, President of Campus Cyber France.

“If we want to be able to fight against these cyber threats, we need to be pragmatic, to exchange, to innovate - hackers innovate every day, we need to be more innovative than they are", he says. To achieve this, he emphasises the importance of joining forces on a European scale: “I am delighted with this collaboration with Luxembourg, it is a great premiere, it is the first country to have contacted us to build this European satellite together”.

This collaboration will mark a step forward towards the development of a European satellite aiming at sharing knowledge and innovation. A real opportunity for progress to counter cyber crime.

Watch the press conference (video in French):