AI AND CYBERSECURITY: REGULATION IS IMPORTANT, INDUSTRIAL SOVEREIGN CAPABILITY IS EVEN MORE !
The European Commission has just put forward an action plan aiming to take advantage of the possibilities offered by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models in the field of cybersecurity, and in this way to provide a structured response to upcoming risks.
Building on the European Union (EU) legal framework for AI and cybersecurity, the action plan will bring together member states, companies, and EU organizations to strengthen, according to the commission, the cybersecurity of the EU’s digital environment against vulnerabilities linked to advanced AI models. Under the AI regulation, advanced AI models must therefore be assessed, and mitigation measures carefully reviewed before they are brought to the EU market, the commission says.
The Commission will work with ENISA (the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) to develop a European reference framework for structured access to advanced AI capabilities for cybersecurity. These guidelines aim to help relevant European public and private organizations gain access to these models. In this context, ENISA and the Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) will create a secure platform to test AI applied to cybersecurity, including through simulated environments. This platform will provide operators in critical sectors finance, energy, health, transport, or public administration with the knowledge needed to use AI safely.
On its side, the ECA develops an action to help set up a true European industrial response, based on the association of European cybersecurity expertise and AI platform development.
We consider regulation to be one leg, but to run fast Europe needs to also have a powerful independent industrial leg.
TYREX AND SECLAB STRENGTHEN THEIR AGREEMENT
TYREX, a French vendor which delivers a hardware agent to clean up storage and communication devices, and SELAB, another French vendor expert in industrial systems cybersecurity, have been partners for more than two years now. This partnership will now be reinforced as Xavier Facelina, co-founder and CTO of SECLAB, will relocate to Canada to manage the TYREX American branch.
