2. Legislation and control

The "legislation and control" theme aims to protect citizens, government bodies and a country's economic activity through regulation and control tools.

• On the one hand, IT and network resources provide companies with considerable comfort in managing their information and communications. They give them greater responsiveness in an increasingly competitive market, by enabling them to access their private networks and data remotely, from anywhere, using different types of terminal (PDA, PC, etc.).

  However, this also makes these companies vulnerable to attacks aimed at stealing their industrial secrets or destroying their customer files...

• On the other hand, individuals are fond of new technologies that offer them greater freedom, and more and more online services...