With EASI Network, we have won a framework agreement initiated by IDELUX Public Projects to provide comprehensive cybersecurity support for public institutions in Belgium’s Luxembourg province. This will enable the public authorities within the province (communes, public centres for social actions and intermunicipal entities) to benefit from our combined European cybersecurity services and solutions, thus ensuring a consistent cybersecurity posture in a collective approach that is unique in Belgium.
Together with EASI Network, a Belgian services provider of IT and telecoms networks, we have signed a framework agreement with IDELUX, the regional development agency, covering comprehensive cybersecurity support for public institutions in the Belgian province of Luxembourg. This agreement will enable municipalities and public institutions, as well as IDELUX itself, to benefit from an extended set of cybersecurity services and solutions for the prevention and detection of cyber threats, and protection against them.
The public authorities will be able to call on our services via the IDELUX Public Projects central purchasing office. These services cover the entire cybersecurity value chain, including security audits, vulnerability scans, penetration testing and 24/7 incident detection and response. The aim is to help public institutions detect, analyse, contain and remediate cybersecurity incidents as quickly as possible, by providing them with a unified catalogue of solutions within the province of Luxembourg. These services will be provided from our Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence (ECCE) in Transinne. The ECCE will also host the training activities provided for in the framework agreement.
The Cybersecurity 2.0 Strategy 2021-2025, published by the Centre for Cyber Security Belgium (CCB) in 2021, aims to make Belgium “one of Europe’s least vulnerable countries in the cyber domain” by 2025. The framework agreement concluded with IDELUX is part of a drive to offer public authorities, on a regional scale, services and solutions to anticipate and reduce the risks of cyberattacks, and thus achieve Belgium’s strategic objectives in this area. This is the first time that a Belgian inter-municipal agency has launched such a unified approach to cybersecurity across its entire territory. The framework agreement will run for 4 years, from May 2023 to May 2027.