What Cyberealm does according to Cyberealm
Cyberealm's press release after the Rai3 Report broadcast and some journalistic reports. Facts, names and insights
Is Cyberealm an operating company or a mere financial holding company?
This is the question that newspapers (few) and professionals (many) have been asking themselves for days, in the wake of a preview of the Rai3 program Report which aired on Sunday 26 November.
The broadcast hosted by Sigfrido Ranucci revealed that the Forza Italia senator, Maurizio Gasparri, new group leader at Palazzo Madama of the movement founded by Silvio Berlusconi, is president of the Cyberealm company; a position not indicated by Gasparri in the declaration to Parliament on the positions.
On Monday 27 November the company in question, at the hands of sole shareholder and director Leone Ouazana, issued this press release: "Cyberealm srl does not agree with the reconstruction carried out by "Report" in the episode broadcast on 26 November and in some published press news in recent days, also inherent to the activity carried out in the same way. In particular, Cyberealm srl – which is not made up of people (nor does it make use of collaborators) belonging to (or with links to) foreign intelligence services – specifies that it has never received orders from public bodies/institutions, whether national than foreign. At present, the company is a holding company, as can be easily seen from the documents accessible in the public registers".
According to the company's partner and director, therefore, Cyberealm is only a financial holding company that holds shares in investee or controlled companies.
Yet from some slides of a presentation by the same company something else could be deduced.
WHAT CYBEREALM SRL PRESIDED BY GASPARRI DOES AS REVEALED BY THE REPORT
Based in Milan, in Largo Guido Donegani, Cyberealm Srl was founded in 2020.
As stated in a company profile seen by Startmag , the Cyberealm group “offers a diversified portfolio of cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions, technologies based on artificial intelligence. We provide technology-driven solutions and end-to-end services, which include the development and integration of intelligence platforms and cyber solutions. Comprised of global experts with extensive field experience in the Israeli cyber ecosystem and intelligence community, Cyberealm Cyber Solutions covers the entire range of cyber-intelligence related products and services.” “Our cutting-edge technologies – it continues – include cyber threat intelligence services, cyber training, the creation of a Security Operation Center (SOC) and managed security services (MSSP), as well as endpoint security and a collection of analysis and investigation tools".
Bizarre, also, that under the wording "Website" in the Linkedin profile, instead of inserting the URL of the Cyberalm website, the URL of another company , Atlantica, appeared, as can be seen from this screenshot reported by Startmag last November 24th.
We use the imperfect tense because, coincidentally, today the website box in Cyberealm's Linkedin profile disappeared.
THE PROPERTY
The share capital, equal to 10 thousand euros, is entirely owned by the Italian-Israeli Leone Ouazana.
As reported by La Notizia , Leone Ouzana with domicile in Tel Aviv (Israel) is the owner and founder in 2020 of the srl, connected to other companies in the telecommunications sector (Melcom srl with headquarters in via Prato della Signora in Rome) and consultancy in information technologies (Atlantica Cyber Security, another srl with headquarters in the central via Barberini also in the capital).
But as revealed in the preview of the report , Report discovered that behind Cyberealm there was “another Israeli entrepreneur, very linked to Ouazana. This is Oozi Cats, former administrator of Telit Italia, until 2017 when he was overwhelmed by a scandal."
GASPARRI AND TELIT
During the mandate of Minister of Communications in the Berlusconi government, as Il Fatto reports on the basis of the Report investigation, the State sold Telit, a strategic asset in the telecommunications field, to the Israeli Dai Telecom led by Ouzi Cats.
GASPARRI'S ROLE AS PRESIDENT OF CYBEREALM
The board of directors includes the owner of the company and sole director, Leone Ouazana, the director Nicola Crispino and Maurizio Gasparri. In fact, since 2021 Gasparri has held the role of president of Cyberealm srl.
Meanwhile, just last week Maurizio Gasparri left the post of vice president of the Senate to take on that of group leader of Forza Italia in the Senate, replaced by his party colleague Licia Ronzulli, group leader of Forza Italia until last Monday and now elected vice president of Palazzo Madama. As he himself declared to Report , he does not hold "any operational role, the president gives opinions, advice, which can be strategic choices".
But to color the story, as underlined by the report of Ranucci's broadcast on Rai3, also Cyberealm's ties with Israel. Also speaking to Report , the owner of Cyberealm Ouzana declared that he conducts "fairly sensitive dedicated activity in Israel".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/cybersecurity/cyberealm/ on Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:12:55 +0000.