These 23 and 24 January, has taken place in Lille, the 10th edition of the International Cybersecurity Forum (FIC). With 7000 participants, 240 partners and 60 represented nationalities, it is a major event in terms of cybersecurity and digital confidence, gathering all the actors in France and in Europe.
On this occasion, and for its first participation as a partner, Nameshield was given the France Cybersecurity label for its DNS Premium solution.
The Nameshield’s labelled DNS Premium solution
The DNS is a well-known attack vector: DDoS, spoofing, Man in the Middle. The attacks are various and sophisticated. In front of the magnitude of these threats, maintaining its DNS infrastructure is complex.
Reliable and strong, the Nameshield’s highly secured DNS Premium is a DNS solution high availability, anycast and offers expert functionalities (anti-DDoS filter – Failover – GeoIP – DNSSEC – detailed statistics – etc.).
This solution labelled France Cybersecurity, thus allows to its users to protect their digital assets from any attack and ensures a high availability of their Internet services.
What is the France Cybersecurity label?
The France Cybersecurity label is the guarantee for users that the Nameshield’s products and services are French and possess clear and well defined functionalities, with a certain level of quality in terms of cybersecurity, verified by an independent jury.
The France Cybersecurity Label answers to several needs and objectives:
- Raise awareness among users and international ordering parties regarding the importance of the French origin of a Cybersecurity offer and its intrinsic qualities
- Certify to users and ordering parties the quality and functionalities of labelled products and services
- Promote French cybersecurity solutions and increase their international visibility
- Certify to users and ordering parties the quality and functionalities of labelled products and services
- Increase their overall use and the users’ security level
This label is governed by a committee composed of representatives gathered in 3 colleges:
- College of officials: representatives from the Direction générale de l’armement (DGA, the French Government Defense procurement and technology agency), the Direction générale des entreprises (DGE, the French Directorate General for Enterprise within the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Digital), and the Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI, the French National Cybersecurity Agency).
- College of users: representatives from groups of users, such as: CIGREF, GITSIS, CESIN, CLUSIF ISSM space.
- College of industrials: representatives from the “Alliance pour la Confiance Numérique” (ACN – Alliance for digital confidence) and HEXATRUST.
Nameshield certified ISO 27001 on all its registrar activity, was able to bring all the necessary guarantees to obtain the France Cybersecurity Label for its domain names securing offer, the DNS Premium and as highlighted by Gérard Gourjon, Nameshield’s Deputy Director-General: “Obtaining the France Cybersecurity Label illustrates our engagement to provide the best services and standards regarding cybersecurity to our customers. At Nameshield, we are proud to see our highly efficient and highly secured DNS infrastructure being labelled.”
For more information on our labelled solution DNS Premium: https://www.nameshield.com/en/cybersecurity/dns-premium/
For more information on the France Cybersecurity Label: https://www.francecybersecurity.fr/en/
