Our vital infrastructures must be protected from many threats. Following on from the White Paper on defence and national security, the National Defence Secretariat-General (SGDN) is playing a major role, both in approving 21 national security directives and in supporting the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection. By controlling all facets of strategic information useful to economic players, economic intelligence contributes to defence of the nation’s vital interests. Arrangements for supporting companies include oversight of financial operations, avoidance of strategic dependence, defence of legitimate economic security interests and the development of an ability to anticipate and act on tomorrow’s opportunities and threats.