National
Cybersecurity Strategy
The Ministry of Economic Development is also a “Sector Authority” pursuant to the NIS Decree and it identifies the entities to be inserted in the National Security Perimeter for Cyber, according to Law Decree no.
105/2019, in relation to the sectors falling within its competence.
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) carries out, through the Financial Police – in particular the Special Unit for the Protection of Privacy and Technological Fraud (NSTPFT) – crime fighting activities against
economic-financial crimes committed through ICT technologies.
The Bank of Italy, as the supervisory authority of the sector, issues regulations and guidelines for strengthening supervised operators’ cyber resilience. It also receives cyber incidents notifications from banks and
financial intermediaries, pursuant to the principal sectorial legislation.
Moreover, the Bank of Italy chairs the CODISE, which is a structure with a coordinating role for the operational crisis of the Italian financial marketplace, which the Consob and the relevant sectorial businesses participate in. In case of cyber incidents on a large scale, the CODISE liaises with the Italian Financial CERT (CERTFin)
to ensure a continuous situational analysis and the needed technical support. Bank of Italy’s CERT liaises
with the principal interested national entities (first of all, the CSIRT Italia, the CNAIPIC and the CERTFin) and
it is also responsible for the management of cyber incidents directed to the Bank, as well as for the organization of training and educational programs, info-sharing initiatives and cyber awareness campaigns.
The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) promote – in close cooperation with ACN, the other Public Administrations and the private sector – a structured digital education and
training plan which should allow to fill the gap of the professional profiles required by the market. Specifically,
in relation to the competences related to scientific and technological research, the MUR ensures that any
type of directive, programming and coordination aim at guaranteeing that new technologies are developed
by taking into account cybersecurity aspects; it also promotes the scientific cooperation at the national,
European and international level, also through specific relations between universities and research entities.
The Department for Digital Transformation (DTD) of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, which supports the Prime Minister and the Minister of technological innovation and digital transition, promotes and
coordinates Governmental actions directed to the definition of an uniform strategy on Public Administration’s digital transformation and Italy’s technological modernization, also in order to achieve the Italian Digital Agenda goals. Moreover, it carries out all the activities aimed at ensuring, in cooperation with the interested Administrations, the development and spreading of the competences needed for an adequate use of digital technologies in the educational, university, and research, central and local Public Administrations, justice,
business, work and social activities sectors.
The Agency for a Digital Italy (AgID) promotes the digital innovation of the Country and the use of digital
technologies in the Public Administration’s organization and in its relationship with citizens and companies.
In particular: it drafts the Triennial plan for ICT in the Public Administration; it carries out functions in the context of procurement procedures of ICT goods and services, by issuing technical opinions on the central Public
Administrations’ contracts’ schemes and framework agreements, beyond a specific threshold, concerning
the acquisition of automatized ICT goods and services and on call for tenders issued by Consip and other con-
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