France thwarted more than 24,000 cyber attacks against Defence systems last year. The number of cyber attacks in France has increased in a significant way substantially across the last three years. The Minister is overseeing an overhaul of the cyber-security operations conducted by his Government. He said the French armys number of digital soldiers working for the French defense would be doubled to 2,600 by 2019, 600 cyber experts will joint to the cyber army. In case of a cyber attack, the country could respond in kind as well as with conventional weapons.”]
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