Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-Security Strategy

10ITALY’S CYBER SECURITY ARCHITECTURE AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Tommaso De Zan, Giampiero Giacomello and Luigi Martino

Introduction

A long-standing member of the EU, NATO, OECD, and the group of G7 countries, Italy is by all measures a modern society with an advanced economy. Compared to other peers, however, such as France, Germany, Japan, or Canada, it is slower in adopting new technologies and integrating them into the economy. From the standpoint of cyber security, being a “sort of a latecomer” (Giacomello, 2005, 2018) allows the country to adopt policies and defenses already tested elsewhere. This lag, however, also means that Italy reacts to vulnerabilities slightly slower than other peers.

Italy’s first computer network in 1980 was ...