Orange Cyberdefense exec reveals what cybersecurity technologies he’s investing in this year>
Channel Partner Insight – Josh Budd
After a year which saw it acquire two of Europe’s largest independent cybersecurity companies, Orange’s newly-formed cybersecurity arm will be placing its bets on three key technology areas looking ahead to this year and beyond. In 2019, Orange became a European cybersecurity leader after forking out â¬515m for pan-European player SecureLink and acquiring £44m-revenue UK firm SecureData.

Now, with both firms operating under a newly-created brand in the Orange Group called Orange Cyberdefense, the â¬700m-revenue French cybersecurity giant will be investing heavily in nascent technologies in the cybersecurity field. Gourgeon added that Orange Cyberdefense has been particularly investing in cloud security posture management (CSPM) over the last few months – mainly through working with Palo Alto and CheckPoint. Gourgeon said Orange Cyberdefense is investing in OT security, asset discovery and detection with vendors including CyberX, Nozomi and Sentryo – the last of which was acquired by Cisco last year. This is an area in which Orange Cyberdefense has been investing in for several years, but remains a key pain point for its customers. Gourgeon said Orange Cyberdefense has formed relationships with emerging vendors such as Cylance, SentinelOne and Cybereason in order to deepen its expertise in endpoint detection and response technologies. He added that deception technology will another key area of interest, and recently signed on with Attivo Networks so it can start offering this honeypot solution to customers. He said new models such as Zero Trust will become more prevalent in a post-COVID era.
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