Mr. Stanislas Verley, the Industrial Cibersecurity Center Coordinator in France, ( CCI Coordinators Team), helps us to get in context of the state of the industrial cybersecurity in his country, and to do so, he shares with us his impressions.

He describes the level of sensitivity of industrial organizations in his country according to the following percentages:

He also affirms that the trend of recent years has been an exponentially grown.

France counts with local and national public bodies promoting an adequate legal framework, in order to ensure the progressive incorporation of industrial cybersecurity measures in national presence companies (mainly critical infrastructure). The main organizations are:

• Prime Minister
• ANSSI - Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information
• SGDSN - Secrétariat Général de la Défense et la Sécurité Nationale
• All professional digital and cybersecurity organizations in France (CESIN, Clusif, Hexatrust, Numeum, etc)

Among the main national laws and regulations affecting in this context in France, Stanislas mentions:

• LPM - Loi de Programmation Militaire
• NIS - NIS2

Analysing the most widely adopted industrial cybersecurity measures by French organizations to protect industrial automation systems, Stanislas Verley highlights the application of:

• Implementation of safety management systems
• Network design and architectures
• IDS / IPS
• Encrypted communications

The CCI Coordinator in France characterizes the industrial cybersecurity situation in his country with the following SWOT analysis: