Orange sets up a cyber campus in the heart of Toulouse
Inaugurated this week in the Pink City, the Orange Cyberdfense campus has set itself the task of protecting businesses and communities in Occitania and New Aquitaine from cyber threats. 60 employees are hard at work ensuring the safety of local players and former staff against cyber risks.
By setting up a cyber campus in the city of Toulouse, the Orange group subsidiary dedicated to cybersecurity intends to support regional companies and public sector players in the fight against IT risks. The site was repaired this Wednesday, October 4 in the Pink City by Hugues Foulon, CEO of Orange Cyberdefense. Also present were Bertrand Serp, vice-president of Toulouse Métropole for digital transition and district mayor, and Marc Sztulman, regional councilor for Occitanie, and president of Cyber’Occ. Located in the heart of the Cartoucherie district in Toulouse, this center welcomes 60 employees who, together with the team of 20 people based in Bordeaux, constitute the regional management of Orange Cyberdefense in the Greater South-West (Occitanie and New Aquitaine) , driven by Thierry Bou.
The objective, advances Orange, is “accelerating the deployment of technical expertise as close as possible to regional public and private players”. Hugues Foulon, CEO of Orange Cyberdefense also justifies this establishment in Toulouse by a dynamic economic ecosystem with its particularly developed aeronautics and space, banking or insurance sectors. “We support regional companies on a daily basis, but also communities as well as start-ups whose cybersecurity challenges, particularly in terms of technology (cloud, connected objects and industrial environments, autonomous vehicles, etc.), are particularly significant”, he underlined in a press release. . As such, Micro-Soc, A managed in-house solution for the detection and protection of workstations and servers for SMEs, ETIs and local authorities will be deployed automatically to guard against cyber threats. Crisis management services, cloud security, industrial environments and connected objects as well as cyber risk training programs complete the system.
About twenty recruitments in progress
In order to support its ambitions, the group is aiming for around twenty recruitments of beginners and confirmed profiles in the next twelve months. All cybersecurity professions are concerned, whether auditors, consultants, security engineers, but also analysts, architects, project managers or even ethical hackers. In this context, partnerships have been established with the academic community of the territory in order to integrate trainees, work-study students and young graduates. From a functional point of view, a real estate project of approximately 1300 m² has been designed. There are coworking spaces as well as more confidential areas depending on the nature of the assignments.
The architecture revolves around a unique decoration that incorporates mineral colors and mixes a set of wood and glazing. The Orange Cyberdefense Toulouse campus also meets energy performance indicators.