Solange Ghernaouti

Solange Ghernaouti is a professor at the University of Lausanne and an international expert on cybersecurity and cyberdefence. She regularly collaborates with various United Nations, European and government institutions as well as with private corporations.
Solange Ghernaouti was the first woman professor at the HEC Lausanne faculty in 1987 and heads the Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory and Research Group that she created, and the Complexity Sciences Research Group. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science and Telecommunications at the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University under the supervision of professor Guy Pujolle. She is a former auditor of the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale, a member of the and a member of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO.
She is the author of numerous technical and popular books and scientific publications on the subjects of telecommunications, the control of computer risks, computer crime and cyberpower and digital humanities. Since 2018, she has regularly kept a blog on the Le Temps newspaper website where she publishes various articles about cybersecurity and the impact of digital and artificial intelligence on society.
A technico-economic and political prospective analyst, she regularly appears in the media and gives conferences on the five continents.
Solange Ghernaouti was also president of various associations such as the Erna Hamburger Foundation from 2012 to 2017 as well as the Social Commission of the University of Lausanne from 2006 to 2016.
In 2020, she published fables of the digital era as well as highly noticed articles on the Swiss contact tracing application.

Distinctions

Ranked among the 100 people who make digital in Switzerland, category researchers - Digital Shapers by Le Temps
Her book La cybercriminalité, les nouvelles armes du pouvoir received the prize for the best book "Cybercriminalité" at the International Forum on Cybersecurity.
Former auditor of the IHEDN
Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour
Reserve Lieutenant-Colonel in the French national gendarmerie
Member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences
Ranked among the 20 women that make Switzerland by Bilan
Ranked among the 100 most powerful women in Switzerland by the magazine Women in Business
Ranked among the 100 public figures that make Swiss Romandie by l'Hebdo
Ranked among the 300 most influential figures in Switzerland by Bilan

Miscellaneous

President of the SGH Foundation
Guest 2018 of the David-Constant Chair of the University of Liège
Member of the Committee Rencontres du 7^ème Art of Lausanne
Member of
Member of the Board of the NGO "Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime"
Portraitized by for the Lipstick Leaders exhibition in Zurich by the artist Daniel Eisenhu
Actor in the play "The Robot Who Loved Me"
Permanent exhibition of the Museum of Communication Bern on the protection of privacy
Associate Fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Member of the scientific committee of the International Forum on Technology and Security
Partner to the European projects E-Crime and Prismacloud
President of the Social Commission of the University of Lausanne
President of the Erna Hamburger foundation
Work Area leader « Capacity Building », Global Cybersecurity Agenda, ITU
Supervisor of the thesis of Lambert Sonna Momo
President of the Gender Equality Commission and previously Member of the Equality Delegation and of the Women's Affairs Commission of the University of Lausanne
Partner to the European project SECOQC
Co-founder in 2001 of the first inter-faculty and interdisciplinary teaching program at the University of Lausanne, DEA "Law, Crime and Security of New Technologies", transformed into a Master's degree in Law, Crime and Information Technology Security in 2006, which she directed at its launch.

Main books

S. Ghernaouti, Cybersécurité, analyser les risques, mettre en œuvre les solutions, 6^ème édition, Dunod, 2019
S. Ghernaouti, Guide pratique de la cybersécurité et de la cyberdéfense, Organisation internationale de la francophonie, 2017
S. Ghernaouti, La cybercriminalité: Les nouvelles armes de pouvoir, 2nd edition, EPFL Press, 2017
S. Ghernaouti, Sécurité informatique et réseaux, 5th edition, Dunod 2016
S. Ghernaouti, CYBERPOWER: Crime, Conflict and Security in Cyberspace, EPFL Press 2013
S. Ghernaouti & A. Dufour, “Internet” – Que sais-je ?, 11th edition, Presses universitaires de France 2012
I. Tashi & S. Ghernaouti-Hélie, Information security evaluation : a holistic approach, EPFL Press 2011
S. Ghernaouti, A Global Treaty on Cybersecurity and Cybercrime: A Contribution for Peace, Justice and Security in Cyberspace, 2nd edition, Cybercrimedata 2011
R. Berger & S. Ghernaouti-Hélie, Technocivilisation : pour une philosophie du numérique, Focus Sciences, PPUR 2010
S. Ghernaouti, Cybersecurity Guide for Developing Countries, 3rd edition revised and expanded, ITU 2009
S. Ghernaouti, Stratégie et ingénierie de la sécurité des réseaux, InterEditions 1998
S. Ghernaouti & A. Dufour, Enterprise Networks and Telephony from technologies to business strategy, Springer-Verlag 1998
C. Servin & S. Ghernaouti, Les hauts débits en télécoms, InterEditions 1998
S. Ghernaouti & A. Dufour, Réseaux locaux et téléphonie, Masson 1995
S. Ghernaouti, CLIENT / SERVEUR. Les outils du traitement, Réparti coopératif, Masson 1993
S. Ghernaouti, Réseaux, applications réparties normalisées, Eyrolles 1990