In Search We Trust How does an EU search engine contribute to cybersecurity? EESC, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 Guillaume Vassault-Houlière, on behalf of Eric Léandri, CEO of Qwant
An ethical vision for the Web Our vision is based on two principles Privacy by design Neutrality QWANT.COM Launched in 2013 European search engine Investors : Caisse des Dépôts and Axel Springer In 2015, the European investment bank also decided to support Qwant up to 25 million euros
In Search We Trust No cookie No history of your queries No association of queries with IP addresses in our logs No third party scripts on our pages Encryption everywhere (HTTPS) Servers in Europe only Right to be forgotten
All-in-one search (Web, news, pictures, social…)
The search engine for kids Qwant Junior is the first safe and secure full blown search engine for kids. It provides answers from the whole internet, eliminates unsafe content and highlights positive resources. Qwant Junior is built on Qwant’s technologies and values privacy: no history, no tracking ... neutrality: same results for anyone Qwant Junior is free, and ad-free.
Platform privacy leaks RISK – Main threats Waterholing Platform privacy leaks User data leakage Company data leakage
Security/Privacy is high priority for Qwant Infosec dedicated team Pentest programs Bug bounty program on first European Platform bountyfactory.io In 2016, Qwant invest on this Platform Vulnerability monitoring, Digital forensics and incident response Custom next generation firewall for Qwant infrastructure Custom security tools Contribute to the next generation of IPS/IDS solution Secure coding course for Qwant’s developers Continuous tests on QA stage CNIL audit about user privacy
Security & Privacy are good and strong allies for EU Thanks in particular to GDPR and the NIS directive Thanks to our national authorities such as the French CNIL (National Commission focused on Privacy) By implementing European Security certifications Proposal for a regulation - COM (2017) 477/947932 title III Drawing on the experience of our national security agencies such as ANSSI in France Relying on external actors to strengthen European security and privacy policies : Qwant, YesWeHack, community of ethical hackers.... Strengthening public/private partnerships Investing in the fundamentals of tomorrow's European digital economy Let's protect the common good and our European citizens together
Thank you! Guillaume Vassault-Houliere CISO Qwant CEO YesWeHack Co-Founder President of « nuit du hack »