Éric Filiol is a Head of Discipline Data, Algorithms & DevOps/IT and senior expert in information and systems security, data security, cyber security and intelligence at Thales Digital Factory, Paris. He has been professor at various engineer schools and universities in the field of information and systems security until recently. In the last three years he has been in charge of risk and threat assessment, security certification (restricted EU, NATO, Export Control level) of a restricted private cloud in the Defense sector. He directed the research and the cyber security laboratory of a French engineer school for 12 years. He spent 22 years in the French Army (Infantry/French Marine Corps). He holds an engineering degree in Cryptology, a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Ecole Polytechnique and a Habilitation to Conduct Research (HDR) in Information from the University of Rennes. He holds several NATO certifications in the field of intelligence. He is still deeply involved in R&D.