Draghi and Gabrielli will scrape the cyber foundation of Conte and Vecchione
On Wednesday, April 14, Copasir is scheduled to hear Franco Gabrielli, Undersecretary to the Prime Minister with responsibility for Services, on the cyber agency outside the Intelligence system. Facts, names, rumors and insights
On Wednesday 14 April at 2 pm Copasir is scheduled to hear the prefect Franco Gabrielli, Undersecretary to the Prime Minister with responsibility for Services and Security, in which he will present the main lines of the idea on the cyber agency outside the intelligence system.
In recent days, Franco Gabrielli, the authority delegated to information and security services, launched the proposal: «The time has come to create an agency that deals with the issue of cyber security in a holistic way. We have to free ourselves from an emergency mode », with an indirect torpedo to the setting of Dis.
The new structure must be "at the Presidency of the Council", said Gabrielli at the conference of the Brothers of Italy "The new networks for the Italian industry and for consumers" concluded by Giorgia Meloni, president of FdI.
The new agency, underlined the former prefect, must develop “resilience skills in the country, that is, to withstand and resist in the face of threats and attacks of various kinds. A primary need today ". "I don't always understand, at all levels, an effective ability to be resilient," remarked Gabrielli.
On cyber, the undersecretary insisted in the remarks, “since 2017 the intelligence sector has played an important role, albeit in my opinion as a substitute. The definition of the cyber security perimeter, the implementation Dpcm, the assessment centers, certainly a lot has been done ".
But now in his opinion – remarked Il Sole 24 Ore – we need to conceive a structure «outside the intelligence sector, because the latter deals with one aspect but not with the complexity of resilience. We must address the issue in a more structural way ».
The direction decided by the Draghi government, therefore, is to keep the cyber-security agency distinct and separate from the Security Information Department headed by Gennaro Vecchione, expressed by the previous Conte government.
Obviously, there will be some coordination, but not too much: the aim is to reposition the issue between the future agency and the CSIRT .
Conte and Vecchione's idea of the Italian Institute of Cybersecurity (IIC) was therefore scrapped, the half public and half private foundation, which was to serve as a link to the network of EU "cyber competence" centers to coordinate investments for digital and cybersecurity in the Recovery Fund.
"The" friendly fire "of a part of the two Italian 007 agencies, Aisi and Aise, contributed to the December stop, due to the suspicion that the ICI took the form of a third cyber agency controlled by Dis", wrote Formiche di Paolo Mass.
Gabrielli's move could be useful in two respects, wrote the expert in the branch Marco Santarelli on Digital Agenda : "First of all, the DIS, with the AISI and AISE agencies, could deal with the matter in a more discretionary way, also holding the reins of the control in a more lucid way and on the other hand it would free itself from technical tasks required in a very strong way by the Cyber world. Likewise, an external recruitment action could be launched that would have the possibility of finding experts without following national security protocols and addressing, as Gabrielli himself says, the issue in a more structural and more resilient way ".
There are also Brussels commitments to be respected. In the coming days, the EU Commission will publish the “Cybersecurity act” regulation and all European countries will have to indicate a “national competence center” connected to the “EU Cybersecurity competence center” in Bucharest by the end of 2021.
Basically, the deceased Iic of contiana memory would now be the agency designed by Gabrielli with the ok of Draghi and the endorsement of the Quirinale.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/draghi-e-gabrielli-rottameranno-la-fondazione-cyber-di-conte-e-vecchione/ on Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:35:09 +0000.