In this European Cybersecurity Month, Wavestone unveils its 2020 panorama of cyber security incidents, with the aim of showing the evolution of the cyber threat in France, while sharing the keys to better anticipation and reaction.

This study takes a close look at the work carried out by our CERT-W team between September 2019 and August 2020: 60 major security incidents, up 50% compared with 2019, across all sectors (finance, industry, services, public sector, information technology, agri-food).

2020 key figures

60 incidents


(+50% vs 2019), with an average of 1 crisis and 4 incidents per month.

50 people involved on average


200 maximum, with an average of 10 backup providers

94 days


average time between an intrusion and its detection (-44% compared to 2019)

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