There is an urgent need to strengthen cybersecurity and build a trustworthy, secured and ethical digital environment in an era of global tensions and conflicts.

New digital technologies (AI, Quantum, Web 3) adoption will accelerate the transformation and need for more sophisticated and powerful digital infrastructures

• Estimated that global IoT connection will increase yearly by 22% over the 2015-2025 period
• Generative AI booming development (x10 investment between 2020 and 2022), with AI/ML novel governance fluxes (Open AI)
• Government funding in quantum computing has increased significantly, e.g., in China were was announced a public funding with an investment of 15.3 B€ in 2022

New cyber threats, increasingly uncertain and unpredictable, will emerge from this major use of sophisticated technologies

• State cyber attack have increased by 693% from 2021 to 2023
• 50-80% of SMEs exposed to a cyber attack go bankrupt within 6 to 12 months
• World Economic Forum & OW1 rank disinformation as #3 societal risk and cybercrime as #1 technological risk at 10-year horizon:
  

  	Societal	Technological
  #1	Large scale migration	Cybercrime & cyber insecurity
  #2	Erosion of social cohesion	Information infra. breakdown
  #3	Disinformation	Digital Power concentration

Thus, there is a momentum for solutions that will address these emerging threats and enable to build a secured and trustworthy digital

• Cyber security market is expected to reach € 650+ Bn in 2030 (x2.6 vs. 2023)
• Top 5 investment areas all have a 2-digit growth between 2023 and 2030:

Sources : Grand View Research, Fortune Business Insight, Allied Market Research
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