For its 3rd edition, the Cybersecurity Breakfast focused on the crucial issue of the security of emails and private messages.
Most email providers guarantee an excellent level of availability, but things are less clear concerning the integrity and confidentiality. On this basis, the company Stidia, a information security service provider, presented its secure email infrastructure project named “emailmadein.lu”.
The experience “email made in Germany” has shown that the need for a secure and confidential communication is real. But it has also shown the limits of a national service in the era of globalization and proprietary model. Hence the idea to draw lessons from this experience and launch a national pilot to develop an open standard in the field of secure email.
The new national cybersecurity strategy’s objective is to improve the resilience of digital infrastructures and fight against cybercrime. Secure email services would be a big advantage since it would largely limit spam and phishing, which are the key vectors of cybercrime. The infrastructures’ resilience should also be strengthened.
The experts and participants of the breakfast are all convinced that a working group should be set up to launch this project, which should be based on undisputed standards as well as open and sustainable technologies.
Assuming that the email is a critical infrastructure and that its security is necessary for businesses, governments and citizens, the emergence of a real secure email could be an opportunity to strengthen Luxembourg as a safe destination for investors.