Do you have to go through the General Directorate of External Security to fight against cybercrime? This is the case of Éléna Poincet (Photo), formerly of the Action department, who, in 2010, created the start-up Tehtris with Laurent Oudot. Trained at the Technical University of Munich, l’X and Berkeley, he also went through the intelligence services. “Our job is a fight and we must not give up”, explains Éléna Poincet. Tehtris has developed a platform that wants to neutralize attacks in real time, already used by the Ministry of the Armed Forces and Paris Airports. tehtris.com
Video. Éléna Poincet, co-founder of the company Tehtris and winner of the 2022 innovator list, creates cyber defense solutions for businesses.
Protected messages
Thomas Baignères and Matthieu Finiasz
Do you know Olvid? This message, which means “forgotten” in Spanish, was co-created by Thomas Baignères (Photo), 43 years ; it has already attracted 80,000 users. “Each individual, each company must retain full ownership of their data. To express oneself in a peaceful way is for me a fundamental right”, explains this holder of a thesis in cryptography from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, who had the idea of Olvid with the normalien Matthieu Finiasz, holder of a thesis at Inria. Their app has received top-level certification from the National Information Systems Security Agency, which protects critical state infrastructure. This is not the case of WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram. olvid.io
Dealing with Quantum Threats
Jean-Charles Faugere and Ludovic Perret
From academic research, Jean-Charles Faugère, research director at Inria, and Ludovic Perret (Photo), teacher-researcher at the Sorbonne, founded a start-up called CryptoNext Security in 2019. Its mission: to deal with the emergence of quantum threats in cybersecurity. Its weapon: software combining current cryptography standards and new standards to resist the quantum computer and ward off attacks over several decades! cryptonext-security.com
Against the black screen
Fabrice Derepas, Benjamin Monate and Pascal Cuoq
“It’s not normal to have bugs in software”, Storm Fabrice Derepas (photo, left). With two former colleagues from the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-List), Benjamin Monate (photo, right) and Pascal Cuoq, he founded TrustinSoft in 2013. The challenge of these three computer science doctors was monumental: to create software to correct computer code and allow developers to mathematically ensure that there are no errors. . trust-in-soft.com
Cross Data
Gregoire Germain and Xavier Boreau
From their time in the French Navy, the two former officers Grégoire Germain (Photo) and Xavier Boreau claim to have kept the team spirit, transposed into their company HarfangLab. To detect suspicious activities, they don’t just have a block list like antiviruses, but they monitor the behavior of connected devices by analyzing as much data as possible. harfanglab.io
Democratize the use of secure data
Sandrine Murcia, Bruno Grieder, Raphaël Auphan and David Pointcheval
Centralian Raphaël Auphan founded the sleep specialist company Zyken, sold to Withings; computer science doctor Bruno Grieder (Photo) founded document exchange specialist Amalto Technologies, while Insa graduate engineer Sandrine Murcia headed European marketing for Google. With Cosmian, they have combined their skills to create a software publisher that allows groups or government institutions to entrust their most sensitive data to third parties, who can manipulate them without any of the parties being able to recover the property of the company. ‘other. The trio is advised by David Pointcheval, CNRS silver medalist. cosmian.com
All about our jury and our methodology.
Sebastien ORTOLA/REA FOR “LE POINT” – Romain GAILLARD/REA FOR “LE POINT” (x2) – ÉLODIE GREGOIRE FOR “LE POINT” – ÉLODIE GREGOIRE FOR “LE POINT” – DR
We would love to thank the author of this write-up for this awesome content
