Christine Riveau is currently Market manager for Critical Infrastructure Protection in Thales Security activities. In charge of coordinating and promoting Thales capabilities in the fields of critical infrastructure safety and security solutions, Mrs Riveau is responsible for developing markets and new offering for critical infrastructures and airports.
Until 2006, Mrs Riveau was in charge of business development for Thales airborne surveillance activities particularly in the fields of maritime security, at the early stage of integrated homeland security systems.

Before joining Thales in 2001, Mrs Riveau had 13 years experience as a management consultant as well as finance, large programme control, business development and M&A practice in the automotive industry.

Optimizing security operations in critical infrastructures

The protection of critical infrastructures such as transportation hubs, energy facilities or public sites is crucial to governments and operators all over the world. Furthermore, since information systems are vital to a country's economy and security, cyber attacks can cause serious damages to States. Accordingly, cyberspace has become a key theatre of conflict.

Considering the cost of assets, the vast amount of data collected, the number of sensors/detection points and the request for coordination and exchange between stakeholders, automation of data collection, alarm analysis, correlation with other events, cyber-protection and supervision capabilities become key.

The core process of a Security Operation Centre for critical infrastructures is to provide situation awareness and automated standard operating procedures to:

• Ensure governance and operations continuity
• Protect people, assets and data
• Prevent and detect cyber-threats
• Provide timely and efficient operational responses
• Enable the containment of and response to all anomalies detected

• Ensure communication and exchange of information amongst the following stakeholders: technical staff, police, civil defence, fire and rescue, operations, onsite emergency services
• Provide an effective situation awareness to support operations through detection - assessment - response - recovery - reporting and training of best practices.