ROMA (ITALPRESS) – To promote a comparison between institutions, public and private operators, professionals, enterprises and representatives of civil society, with the aim of promoting an integrated security culture as a public value and a protection factor for citizens, workers, organizations and territories. It is the goal of the meeting “The integrated security ecosystem. Governance, compliance and Resilience in the Digital Age” promoted by the Labor & Welfare Association, which sees as a guiding theme the integrated security as an essential condition for the protection of critical infrastructure, essential services and continuity of the country’s strategic functions, as well as for the protection of workers.
“The so-called hybrid war has fallen on us and we begin to understand its gravity. We have long been proposing to address the issue of security in an integrated way,” said Cesare Damiano, president of the association Labor&Welfare. “When we talk about security, we are alluding to the health and safety of workers and workplaces through prevention, we do not forget that in Italy we have more than a thousand deaths a year, but we do not want to limit ourselves to this because there is also a cybersecurity theme, a protection to the whole field of workers and enterprises with technologies and data that can be violated with the consequences that, in turn, affect workers and citizens. The attack that we have suffered in recent days, the threats that have been on the net – he added -, denote the urgency of an intervention that is able to face in total terms the topic. We are faced with increasingly fast technology, such as artificial intelligence that has an ability to evolve that human cannot understand and contrast in the sense of dominating it. So, we need great training to understand the evolution of these technologies, to know how to govern and turn it towards humanity.”.
Undersecretary of Culture, Giampiero Cannella, observed how it is essential to meet and find a common strategy because “until before this stage public opinion had no full awareness of the danger of hybrid war and, therefore, cyber attacks that are a component of this hybrid war. It is important to meet, discuss and debate, but above all it is important to implement the culture of security and defence against these threats that are seemingly less visible and less insidious than other types of threats, but that instead affect negatively, often devastatingly, in our daily activity.”.
Piero Fassino, Vice-President of the House’s Defense Committee, pointed out that “the risk is part of life, although this we tend to remove it, but we have always experienced the risk in the physical dimension as, for example, the aggression of another state, today we live a material dimension that continues to exist, but more and more the risk is connected with the digital dimension. The maps of the world are no longer those of the physical boundaries, but they are the maps of the networks.” “I think we have to be more and more aware that we live in this world made more and more connections and security is increasingly a horizontal and not more vertical dimension, this is a cultural leap not simple because it means changing all organizational models. We must not forget that everything we are discussing is fundamental to protect our freedoms.”.
During the event, the main profiles related to cybersecurity, physical security, safety, operational continuity, regulatory compliance, risk management and organizational resilience have been deepened, even in the light of the new framework deriving from Directive NIS2, national legislation of transposition, Law 90/2024 and CER Directive.
Umberto Saccone, professor and expert in Security Risk Management, explained that one can no longer talk to silos but that we must necessarily talk about integrated security. The approach to security is holistic, we hope that thanks to events such as this, the legislator will be able to take note of this situation and begin to look at both the Unico 81 Text and the rules that have taken place for digital security in an integrated manner.”.
According to Franco Oleari, president of Mead Informatica, “building a true security culture means moving from reaction to prevention and making system to protect everything that every day makes our country work”.
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