This report looks in-depth at several key topics and trends relevant to cyber security professionals in Italy (and beyond) in the run up to ItaliaSec 2024, including exclusive interviews from some of the country’s leading CISOs, speaking at this year’s event.
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Italian Cyber Security Threat Landscape_
As part of the ItaliaSec Annual Report, we look at the evolution of the cyber threat landscape, including notable changes such as:
Number of cyber attacks reported as particularly severe in the past 5 years
% of cyber attacks reported as “critical” or “high” severity
Increase in the number of cyber attacks in 2023
Average monthly number of cyber attacks in 2023
Most Targeted Industries of Cyber Attacks_
As part of the ItaliaSec Annual Report, we investigate the trends and types of cyber attacks impacting key industries, such as:
Government
Public Administration
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Contributors of the Report_
Guido Barbero
ICT CTO & CISO
Iveco
“The trend of shifting application workloads to cloud computing is very significant, to reap all the benefits of flexibility, cost and speed of execution offered by these platforms. It therefore becomes crucial to understand how the organisation protects its cloud-based resources.”
Giampiero Bonfiglio
CISO Italy & Greece
L’Oréal
“My experience has taught me the importance of taking a holistic approach holistic approach to data security, which includes both prevention and incident response.”
Daniele Luzi
Head of EMEA South Practice
Google Cloud, Google
“Artificial Intelligence represents a turning point for digital security, we are excited about the potential of AI in solving security challenges, bringing us closer to a more secure and trusted digital world.”
Luca A. Giusti
CISO and Head of Infrastructure
IDM- Integra Document Management
“In the field of information security, AI represents both a risk and an opportunity. It is crucial to implement AI among security automatons to use its potential to do threat reconnaissance and identification, reducing false positives and identifying new attack and compromise techniques, and reduce the impact of zero-day threats as much as possible.”
Vincenzo Calabrò
Information Security Officer
Ministero Dell’Interno
“An optimal approach, capable of reducing risks to an acceptable level involves the use of a method capable of identify, assess and mitigate risks associated with the global and distributed nature of supply chains.”
Andrea Licciardi
Senior Cyber Security Manager
Tecnimont
“Third-party risk management is crucial and can be addressed in three fundamental steps: Assessment, due diligence and contracts and compliance.”
Francesco Corrado
Head of Cyber Security
Ferrero
“The paradigms introduced by the fourth industrial revolution and the consequent push towards digitisation have imposed a technological transformation that necessarily requires a convergence between two worlds designed to operate independently, the IT and OT worlds.”
Massimo Cottafavi
Director Cyber Security & Resilience
Snam
“Cyber resilience is a much abused term, but behind it lies a cultural attitude that is gradually asserting itself within companies and which concerns the ability to maintain their own strategic coherence, possibly adapting tactical approach, in an economic, social and technological context in which change and unpredictability
have become two constants.”
Andrea Succi
CISO
Ferrari Group
“Take an entrepreneurial mindset: present IT security as an investment, not a cost. “
Paolo Cannistraro
CISO
Engie Italia
“To perform the role of CISO to the best, one needs to possess a range of technical, managerial and relational skills.”
