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  A burglar who wants to enter a building, however well guarded it may be, will always end up achieving his ends: No bastion is impregnable and all these lines of defense that were said during the previous world war , impregnable, have shown their limits. Why should it be any different when it comes to the fortified digital systems that cyber attackers seek to penetrate? Therefore, rather than seeking to further fortify what will always end up not being able to resist the enemy, why not change approach and concentrate on what can and must be protected within the enclosure, inside the systems? During an attack, the attacker is always one step ahead. So, if you search for all the internet addresses that have been used by attackers, they can always come back with other addresses and when they have succeeded in penetrating the stronghold, it will be too late to ban this address which has become obsolete. Don't they say that during a ZERO DAY attack it takes 275 days to create a patc...

Cybersecurity, defined by the objective it pursues, aims to protect natural and legal persons against any digital attack so that they keep intact what belongs to them, whether material or immaterial goods, so that they are available to them at any time, unchanged and under their exclusive control and to avoid direct and indirect damage inherent in any infringement of their exclusive right of ownership or enjoyment of their assets. It is by fully understanding the issues and implications of cybersecurity that we will be able to apply effective measures. Who should be protected? The natural person or entity that owns an IT system is the first potential victim in the event of an attack. What should we protect? Assets, whether tangible or intangible, encompass much more than a simple IT system. Reputation, competitiveness, production, services, and even the economy of damages are an integral part of the assets to be preserved. What purpose? So that these assets remain available, unaltered,...