Archive of Switzerland - Blue Soft Group

Cybersecurity for autonomous cars

In recent years, technological advances have made it possible to envisage the best for autonomous cars. Since June 1, 2018, our customer Transports Publics Genevois (TPG) has obtained official authorization to launch an automated line of automated vehicles for Geneva commuters. These advances highlight cybersecurity for autonomous cars. Why have the TPG launched an autonomous car project? To improve traffic flow in the Geneva area and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the TPG is introducing autonomous vehicles to enable users to travel at lower cost, while emitting zero carbon emissions. To bring this major project to fruition, Transports Publics Genevois had to invest 20 million euros to make it viable and secure in every respect. Cybersecurity, a little-known issue for autonomous car users The safety of the user and the surrounding environment, particularly other motorists, is the first question - and rightly so - that everyone asks. What is less obvious to everyone, however, are the cybersecurity issues associated with these autonomous vehicles. These [...]

The Swiss IT market and its specificities

Team Partners is a Geneva-based IT services company and subsidiary of the Blue Soft Group. Vincent Faysse, Managing Director of the company since 2007, presents the company's expertise and offering in the IT market in French-speaking Switzerland, and the associated outlook. Specificities of the Swiss IT market Issues and constraints Mr. Faysse explains: "Each customer has different issues and constraints. For the customers we know best, i.e. those in the banking sector, they are receiving strong messages from all sides. He adds: "The crisis in the United States has highlighted the fragility of certain structures, and indeed of the banking system as a whole. The Swiss banking market is no exception to this externally imposed transformation. Cost pressures and Switzerland's openness to greater transparency are going to turn CIOs' habits upside down." Find out more about the increasingly complex needs of CIOs. The advent of cloud and DevOps in IT "The advent of cloud even in Switzerland is a major and inexorable step forward. At the same time, users' level of maturity with regard to IT has strengthened their own powers. Each individual has [...]