Lazio Crea: accounts, summits and controversies
Facts and numbers on Lazio Crea, the in-house company of the Lazio Region at the center of the cyber attack
There are the computer systems of LazioCrea, an in-house company of the Lazio Region, at the center of the hacker attack that since 1 August knocked out the Region's website, that of the Regional Council and the booking portal for vaccines against Covid-19 .
All the details on the regional company.
WHAT LAZIOCREA DOES
Lazio Crea is the newco resulting from the merger between the regional companies LAit spa, specialized in technological innovation, and Lazio Service spa, a service company with high added value. The merger , which was completed on 31 December 2015, was part of a reorganization and administrative reorganization process that had already brought the directly owned companies from 35 to 6.
Since 2015, the in-house company Lazio Crea has managed all regional activities related to the preventive design and development and management of the IT systems of the Region, through a framework contract currently in force, adopted by a resolution of the Board, pursuant to art. 192, paragraph 2, of the legislative decree n. 50/2016 65.
To date, it has approximately 1,700 employees: of which 17 are managers; 55 paintings; 1609 clerks and 25 workers.
THE PARTNERS
With a share capital of € 924,400, the company is 100% owned by the Lazio Region.
THE TOP
The board of directors now in office, established on 2 July 2020, is made up of Luigi Pomponio, as chairman and CEO, and the directors Paola Maria Bottaro and Giuseppe Baisi.
THE NUMBERS
LazioCrea recorded a turnover of 130,385,869 euros in 2020, down from the 134,689,170 euros in 2019. The profit amounted to 11,030 euros, in line with the previous year (10,333 euros in 2019). The costs of production amounted to 139,858,222 euros.
The company boasts a total of tangible fixed assets worth € 877,905. At 31 December 2020, total payables amounted to € 50,639,548, an increase of € 4,946,496 compared to the 2019 financial year.
INFRASTRUCTURAL SERVICES PROVIDED IN 2020
As stated in the report of the 2020 financial statements, during the year, the company continued to ensure the management of transversal technological platforms (data centers; etc …) and the regular operation of the basic systems for the operation of the Administration and of the vertical services entrusted to LazioCrea by the Lazio Region.
In detail, the following should be noted: the operational management of the regional data centers which ensured proper functioning; the development and maintenance of the existing basic hardware and software infrastructure.
But also continuity in the management of cyber security events and incidents, support to the Dpo structure for data protection activities and for the development of company procedures on privacy, and the strengthening of antimalware / antispam systems business.
DATA CENTERS AND BACKUP ACTIVITIES
Finally, both the provision of application services intended for regional users and citizens of the Lazio Region, and the common infrastructure services, such as centralized authentication services, data protection with the appropriate backup operations planned for the data centers depend on the data centers. systems and e-mail with about 12,000 mailboxes of regional users and related bodies, the report states.
Yet, from the press, it is learned that the information blocked by the cyber attack in progress since 1 August would have no backup copy.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/laziocrea-conti-e-vertici/ on Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:41:07 +0000.