🔴 What to Make of the SecNumCloud Qualification of S3ns?

We were the first to state, and to explain why, S3NS, the joint venture between Thales and Google, would be certified by the state.
On December 17, we learned that ANSSI (France's national cybersecurity agency) has now awarded S3NS the SecNumCloud 3.2 certification, its security qualification for cloud providers.

Against the grain of global geopolitics and the demands of increasingly worried citizens, this is the first time a service backed (though not owned) by foreign capital has reached this level of certification.

So this is not an earthquake if you read this newsletter, but a reorganization of the market orchestrated by the operator state.

Here is our take: