A new security, better and more resilient, in the name of "sharing”. This is the red thread of the main interventions of the CyberTech, one of the main global forums on the subject of cyber security, landed for the first time in Europe in Rome, at the Palazzo dei Congressi, thanks to the collaboration between the Israeli CyberTech Global Events e Leonardo Finmeccanica. The latest edition of the event, held in Tel Aviv, attracted over 10 delegates from 50 countries with hundreds of companies represented.
The CEO of Leonardo opened the works Mauro Moretti, who "reaffirmed the centrality of cyber security in the defense programs of countries and in the processes of digitization of society and the economy." Moretti then spoke of the need to unify the different perspectives on the subject, ensuring that "states, the private sector and the world of research must select clear objectives to which to devote the right investments and the appropriate attention”.
The keyword, as mentioned, “is sharing. It is necessary that at an international level, in the various sectors, with regard to cyber security, efforts to share objectives, perspectives, standards and resources increase". "As far as the objectives are concerned - continues Leonardo's CEO - , in Europe it is necessary to materialize that of a common defense: cyber security represents both a new requirement and a possible solution in view of harmonisation".
A sharing that must also concern “financial resources. Considerable resources must be allocated to adequately and appropriately protect critical infrastructures, which employ increasingly complex, integrated and interoperable technologies. To ensure the right level of cyber security for different sectors, new forms of cooperation and cost sharing should also be considered".
To do this, the proposal of Leonardo is that of a newnational organization dedicated to cyber security“, to better face an increasingly difficult challenge, in a market, that of cyber security, which weighs for 25 billion euros in Europe and 2,4 billion in Italy.
Also for the director general of the Department of Information Security Alexander Pansa, common projects are needed: "The country now needs its own national cyber security project, which can deal with the new threats". One "of the priorities of the new edition of the National Plan - continues Pansa - could be the implementation of a government laboratory where to test computer systems before their use in critical infrastructures, both government and private".
"The National Cybersecurity Project", concluded Pansa, "will be able to usefully benefit from the budget made available by the stability law for 2016. For the project to determine, as is now essential, an effective change of pace for the reaction capacity of the our country will be equally essential that the construction of the same take place with the contribution of the various public, private and research components above sectoral interests".
Cooperation between public and private is also at the center of the Interior Minister's speech Angelino Alfano: “Cyber terrorism opens up a point which is public-private cooperation. We have a challenge which is that of the methods of recruitment and communication of terrorists”.
According to the minister, “it is necessary to acknowledge that on state sovereignty in terms of security, collaboration between states is also open to matters that are foundational to states, such as security. Because the attack is not on states but on peoples”.
Koen Gijsbers, General Manager, Communications and information agency of the NATO, the central point of cyber security is the resilience of digital defense systems, which must work at all times. “A resilience which, therefore, must be dynamic”, ready to transform itself according to needs.
To do so, as established by Warsaw Summit, "each nation has undertaken to improve its resilience and an agreement has been reached to divide information among the various member countries". Another necessity, also for Gijsbers, is that of "working together with industry" to achieve the goal of "a dynamic innovation to be operated together".
Beatrice Covassi, Director of the EU Commission representative office, Italy, the central objective to be achieved is that of “a European safety net”. The creation of a European Union “also in terms of cybersecurity”, also necessary “to remain competitive on the global market.
