“Reinventing the resilience of companies to cyberattacks“
Over the last few decades, digital applications have become the norm at companies. This evolution is based on two phases. The first, with the adoption of the internet, instant messaging and document sharing, was characterised by considerable productivity gains. We quickly saw the benefits of integrating these new applications. This first phase of adoption now coexists with a more comprehensive vision that understands the dependence on digital technology and raises fundamental questions of trust and resilience.
At the heart of the business, information systems have taken on a significant role and data is centralised in the hands of a limited number of non-European suppliers, threatening the principle of sovereignty. Cyberattacks are increasing in frequency and intensity. Companies are faced with a paradox: they need IT, in particular cloud services, to grow, but they must protect their data and those of their customers and ensure their business continuity.
8,000
billion US dollars per year. This was the global cost of cybercrime in 2023. It is expected to be 10,500 billion in 2025.
Source : Cybersecurity Ventures, the world’s leading researcher and publisher in the field of cybereconomics.
Faced with this issue, I am convinced that it is not up to the user - whether a company or an individual - to take responsibility for the protection of their data. It is up to us, the solution providers, to rise to the challenge. Astran was born out of a simple desire to enable everyone to regain control over their data, while benefiting from the full value thereof. Our solution uses advanced cryptographic algorithms to encode, fragment and distribute data across multiple cloud storage nodes, ensuring confidentiality, high availability and data integrity. This method makes it impossible to reconstitute data without authorisation and ensures a high level of availability, making the data stored in this way the business‘ last line of defence in the event of a major cyberattack.
We work with major public and private players, including BNP Paribas. We are currently working with the latter on two projects, and we have also joined its “We are Innovation” accelerator, which gives us access to its network and allows us to benefit from its expertise. Our goal is to make our solution a secure cloud storage standard. To do so, we are working with the NIST(1). Although the process will take several years, we are determined to make progress on the matter, as achieving a high level of resilience and data security is one of the key challenges of the decade for all companies.
Astran
Founded in March 2021 by Yosra Jarraya, Gilles Seghaier and Yahya Jarraya, Astran is a French data resilience and security specialist that acts as the last line of defence against cyberattacks by continuously providing companies with their cyber and business digital survival kits (emergency procedures and contacts, critical data, keys, active directory). Astran thus makes it possible to strengthen business continuity systems by providing a highly available and secure storage location. Astran’s clients include public and private players, such as BNP Paribas, Eiffage and Sanofi, as well as mid-caps and SMEs.