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FIC

Forum International de la Cybersecurite - the Lille-hosted cybersecurity exhibition and conference held at Lille Grand Palais. The acronym is the name visitors will see on badges, hall signage and the programme.

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SIEM

Security Information and Event Management: a platform that collects logs from endpoints, network gear, cloud tenants and identity systems, correlates them and fires alerts into the SOC. Exhibitors at FIC use SIEM demos to show detection content, log ingestion cost and integration with French and EU sovereign cloud stacks.

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SOC

Security Operations Centre: the team and tooling that monitors alerts around the clock. At FIC you will meet SOC operators comparing managed detection, tier-1 triage automation and analyst workload tooling.

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EDR / XDR

Endpoint Detection and Response, and its extended variant that also ingests identity, email, cloud and network telemetry. Buyers at the show compare agent coverage, offline response, and console consolidation across vendors.

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MDR

Managed Detection and Response: an outsourced monitoring and response service, usually priced per endpoint or per user per month. MDR providers at FIC pitch to mid-sized organisations that cannot staff a 24/7 SOC.

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Zero Trust

An architecture principle where no user or device is trusted by default and every request is authenticated and authorised. In practice it shows up at the show as identity-aware proxies, micro-segmentation and continuous device posture checks.

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IAM / MFA

Identity and Access Management, plus Multi-Factor Authentication. These are the entry point for most French and EU compliance programmes, so FIC exhibitors use the show to demo phishing-resistant factors such as passkeys and hardware tokens.

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PAM

Privileged Access Management: vaulting, session recording and just-in-time elevation for administrator and service accounts. It is a standard purchase for banks, utilities and public bodies exhibiting and visiting at Lille.

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SASE / SSE

Secure Access Service Edge and its security-only subset: cloud-delivered secure web gateway, CASB, ZTNA and firewall-as-a-service bundled for distributed workforces. Expect side-by-side comparisons of latency, POP coverage and local data residency.

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CTI (cyber threat intelligence)

Curated information about adversaries, campaigns and indicators of compromise (IOCs). At FIC, CTI vendors demonstrate feeds, CISA-style advisories and integration into SIEM, SOAR and ticketing workflows.

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CTEM / vulnerability management

Continuous Threat Exposure Management: the practice of finding, prioritising and validating exploitable exposures rather than chasing raw CVE counts. Exhibitors pair scanner data with attack-path analysis and remediation tracking.

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Pentest and red team

Authorised offensive testing, from a scoped application pentest to multi-week adversary simulation. Service firms at the show present methodology, French legal constraints and reporting formats clients can hand to auditors.

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NIS2 and DORA

Two EU regulations: NIS2 sets cybersecurity obligations for essential and important entities across member states, and DORA covers digital operational resilience for financial entities. Both drive supplier due diligence, so many FIC conversations start with evidence and documentation requests.

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Post-quantum cryptography (PQC)

Encryption algorithms designed to resist quantum attack, alongside crypto-agility work needed to swap algorithms later. Vendors use FIC to map which HSMs, VPNs and certificate estates already support hybrid PQC.

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OT / ICS security

Protection of operational technology and industrial control systems - SCADA, PLCs and plant networks - where availability outranks confidentiality. Visitors from energy, water and transport operators compare passive monitoring and network segmentation tools.

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CSIRT / CERT

Computer Security Incident Response Team, the national or sector body that coordinates incident handling. In France the national reference is CERT-FR within ANSSI; incident response providers at the show describe how they hand over and escalate cases.

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Sovereignty and SecNumCloud

French qualification scheme run by ANSSI for cloud service providers, used by public bodies and regulated buyers as a procurement filter. A recurring FIC talking point is how a SaaS or SOC service can be operated from French-qualified infrastructure.