A Surge in Cyberattacks Despite Record Budgets
Cybersecurity budgets are exploding; 97% of organizations plan to raise their spending in 2024, including 52% aiming increases above 11%, according to a recent Cisco report. And yet, in 2024, France’s ANSSI recorded a 15% rise in incidents—more than 4,300 attacks—driven by greater sophistication, targeted threats and mass data theft.
This observation highlights a curious anomaly, budgets are growing while incidents are still on the rise. The problem is therefore not technical, but structural.
Securing the Information System Sustainably: a Project That Goes Beyond Tech
This paradox underscores a deeper reality: as long as security is treated as merely another technical topic, the structural vulnerabilities of the information system will persist.
What’s observed on the ground are organisations where roles are blurry, responsibilities dispersed, procedures absent or ill-suited to real practice. Technical teams struggle to maintain a reliable map of the existing environment, businesses adopt new tools without coordination, and security reflexes remain largely detached from day-to-day operations. In this context, even the best technologies are not enough to provide lasting protection.
For security to become a lever of resilience rather than a sequence of defensive actions, it is essential to address the subject in all its complexity. This means taking a step back to assess the overall state of the information system, rethinking processes, strengthening governance, and cultivating a shared security culture—from executive leadership down to support teams.
Some companies are beginning to adopt more integrated approaches. They combine audits of the current state with efforts to align strategically, undertake durable transformations across their delivery chain, embed DevSecOps principles into their development practices, and bolster capabilities for monitoring and incident anticipation. These approaches remain marginal, but they outline a more structural path.
It is within this kind of logic that Eleven Labs structures its interventions, seeking to move beyond the conventional segmentation of cybersecurity viewpoints. Their approach blends deep analysis of information systems, the establishment of DevSecOps practices at the core of development pipelines, and guidance for teams on the challenges of operational resilience. “What you consistently find in the most exposed environments is not a lack of tools, but an absence of an overarching vision. Systems are often fragmented, processes are fuzzy, and best practices depend on a few key individuals. Until you’ve built a solid foundation, security tools end up functioning like temporary patches.” Marie Minasyan, IT Audit Lead at Eleven Labs.
ISO 27001: A Solid Framework, A Trust-Building Instrument
Fortunately, there are frameworks like ISO 27001 that help structure security: risk analysis, procedures, controls… your information system gains rigor, credibility, and trust with clients and partners. The standard mandates a cycle of continuous improvement: audits, risk reviews, action plans. It weaves together culture, governance, and communication—the famous coupling of “technical + organizational.”
To learn more, this dossier explains, in particular, very well what there is to know globally about ISO 27001.
Security Culture, a Pillar of Cyber Resilience
Beyond the structural aspect of security, governance must come from the top. HR, Finance, IT, and the CISO must deliver a unified message to information system users, with clear objectives, targeted awareness campaigns, and milestones embedded into daily routines.
For experts, a DevSecOps reflex or “security by design” mainly emerges from a shared culture.
Operational Security: Integrating Resilience and DevSecOps
From an operational standpoint, so‑called “resilient” systems typically rely on the ability to anticipate and respond. Incorporating vulnerability analyses, automated scans (SAST, SCA), architecture reviews, and resilience testing (tabletop exercises) helps shift from a defensive posture to proactive management.
Here, DevSecOps embeds security into the pipeline, not at the end. Operational resilience includes disaster recovery, isolated backups, incident playbooks—in short, an information system ready to “weather the blows.”
Continuous Monitoring and Testing to Anticipate Incidents
Directly extending resilience, continuous monitoring provides real‑time visibility into what is happening within the information system : logs, alerts, anomalies, detected vulnerabilities. With a SIEM, an XDR, or a CCM solution, it’s possible to convert raw data into actionable alerts, enabling early detection.
This ongoing surveillance extends to the network, endpoints, applications, and cloud—and rests on intelligent automation. It dramatically reduces MTTD (mean time to detect) and MTTR (mean time to respond), lowers false positives, and allows prioritizing actions according to the real criticality of the alerts.
Simultaneously, tests (pentests, red teaming, tabletop simulations) become the compass that verifies the validity of protections. Numerous lessons learned show that tools without testing remain unused or misconfigured. Regularly conducting these audits validates controls dynamically and strengthens the security posture according to real-world scenarios.
A Strategic Investment for the Years to Come
And with the ability to monitor and test continuously, companies are entering a new era of strategic relevance. This alignment enables transforming cybersecurity budgets from cost centers into value centers: fewer costly incidents, better compliance (GDPR, NIS2), and tangible returns in terms of performance and brand image.
ROI thus becomes a differentiator on the market, an argument in bids and a boost to client trust.
