- Orange Business creates division to serve defence and homeland security with sovereign-grade infrastructure
- New unit leverages Orange Group’s assets in cybersecurity, fibre networks, AI, and quantum innovation
Orange Business: Targets sovereign security infrastructure
Orange Business has announced the creation of its new Defence & Security Division, designed to meet the increasing need for sovereign digital solutions across Europe’s defence and homeland security markets. This strategic move, announced on 30 June 2025, brings together several hundred experts under the leadership of Nassima Auvray to serve national defence ministries, law enforcement agencies, and defence contractors. According to Orange, this is part of its “Lead the Future” strategic plan, where digital sovereignty and resilient infrastructure have become high-priority themes.
This new unit draws on Orange Group’s broad capabilities, integrating cyber defence, artificial intelligence, private 5G, secure cloud hosting and fibre infrastructure. The division aims to offer solutions compliant with national regulations and capable of hosting sensitive and classified data. The company highlighted that defence clients require systems built with security and redundancy from the ground up, which Orange Business can now deliver through its extensive technical and operational infrastructure. The unit will also work closely with Orange Cyberdefense and other specialised business lines within the group.
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Orange: Scales up in a competitive innovation landscape
The broader Orange Group, with revenues of approximately $42.9 billion in 2024 and 125,800 employees, has positioned itself as a global leader in telecom and digital services. The creation of the Defence & Security Division signals a natural extension of Orange Business’s existing work in regulated sectors like healthcare and critical infrastructure. Innovations from Orange Labs and the integration of quantum technologies further bolster the group’s ambition to serve clients with advanced, future-ready solutions. Orange’s global infrastructure includes 450,000 km of submarine cables and 45,000 km of terrestrial fibre in France, enabling the low-latency, high-resilience networks critical to defence operations.
However, challenges remain. As defence requirements grow more complex, Orange must maintain technological sovereignty while ensuring inter-operability with public and commercial systems. There are also internal challenges in aligning cross-functional teams across Orange Business, Cyberdefense, and R&D to deliver integrated services. Nonetheless, the group’s scale and investment in AI, secure data hosting and next-gen telecom give it a strong foundation to meet the evolving digital security demands of European states.
