Faced with successive waves of piracy, the major American and French companies seeking computer genius by any means.
Cyber attacks are increasingly spectacular defenders, they remain very discreet: they do not have the profile of the "hacker" great popularized by Hollywood, but he asked a young engineer. And they are highly sought after. After Facebook , Twitter or the New York Times , Apple announced this week that he was the victim of a cyber attack. President Barack Obama has made cyber threat a theme of his speech on the State of the Union at the beginning and American consultants have pointed to the Chinese army, which has denied. "We know that countries and foreign companies are stealing the confidential information of our company," he told Mr. Obama, who added: "Now our enemies are also trying to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our control systems air traffic. "
As a result, the demand for specialists explodes. United States, it is called a candidate for ten vacancies.In France, too, firms compete with the Ministry of Defence to recruit high-level specialists. "It is no longer an activity of geeks. Has professionalized the business," explains Sébastien Heon, Director of Political Affairs in Cybersecurity Cassidian, an EADS subsidiary. "This is a little difference between James Bond and the real spies," fun Ternat Christophe, 34, director of missions at Thales Communications and Security. Cybersecurity specialists are "a bit ordinary people, between 25 and 35 years, with an employment contract, but above all passionate," he said.
