The SwissCyber Initiative (SCI) maps Switzerland’s cybersecurity ecosystem and examines current and future gaps in cybersecurity R&D, with a particular focus on companies and key cybersecurity subdomains. Combining a nationwide stakeholder survey with reworked and cleaned structured data from sources such as Crunchbase and ZEFIX, the project identifies perceived R&D gaps, emerging technologies and threat priorities, and the characteristics and geographical distribution of active organizations. It also reveals how companies are financed and by whom, offering an initial perspective on the digital sovereignty of Switzerland’s cybersecurity sector. These insights are integrated into a web-based platform that enables interactive exploration and comparison through smart filters. The presentation will highlight key findings from the R&D-gap analysis and demonstrate two use cases illustrating how survey insights, ecosystem data, and financing information can be combined to support evidence-based analysis of Switzerland’s cybersecurity landscape.

About the speaker

Dr. Loïc Marechal

Scientific Collaborator at HES-SO Valais-Wallis (IEM)

Dr. Loïc Maréchal is a Scientific Collaborator at the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Management, HES-SO Valais-Wallis. His current research applies financial methods to estimate the costs of cyberattacks and to assess cybersecurity-related firms. He has taught finance at the Universities of Neuchâtel and Geneva, ESSEC Business School, and Les Roches. With over 10 years of experience in commodity markets, including work on trading desks and PhD research, he also has a strong interest in machine learning and market microstructure. He is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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