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Event Name: Cyber ​​Arsenal: the new reality in hybrid conflicts
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Event Date: 09/13/2022
Event Time: 08:30 AM - 01:30 P.M.
Event Organizer: Rome Chapter
Description: The recent hybrid conflicts (Iran vs USA and Russia vs Ukraine) have made clear the importance of having an arsenal of digital "weapons" to prepare, conduct a hybrid conflict, to destabilize the enemy or respond according to one's own cyber scheme defense and counterattack. Nothing that can completely replace the war effort so to speak kinetic, but certainly with a strong impact on the morale of the enemy, both military and civilian. It's a situation that doesn't manifest itself only close to or coinciding with armed conflicts or only towards military infrastructures, but, now as reality teaches us, it is an almost daily fact that involves almost all areas of our society, financial, health, infrastructural, industrial. Misinformation, Ddos attacks, various types of Apt, Ransomware, Malware, indiscriminate and asymmetric attacks on the enemy's critical infrastructures are all elements to condition and destabilize a country. It is an activity that we have been experimenting with for a long time, but that the Ukrainian conflict has further highlighted by exposing the West to the attack of groups possibly sponsored by adversary states and which therefore must necessarily work to defend the digital perimeter of the various countries. All disruptive technologies can be used to create damage to the opponent: Quantum, AI, new generation cryptography, fake news, fake video, vulnerability analysis, use of unconventional zero days, osint, closint, socmint, fimint, virtual humint etc. In this context, the Rome Chapter of AFCEA International decided to organize a conference aimed at establishing what is the state of the art in Italy for National Cyber ​​Defense, what are the cornerstones of Digital Defense and identify the industrial ecosystem to service of our armed forces, but more generally of all sectors of our country. The speed and the harmfulness of the threats impose a speed and flexibility that probably also require a greater attention of the "procurement" towards those SMEs and innovative start-ups that can constitute a decisive response against the adversary blocks. Therefore, the seminar is aimed not only at large national cyber players but also at small companies of great technological depth. The event includes a round table in the first part, followed by a session of specific presentations. Representatives from the institutional world, defense, and the industrial sector will speak.
Event Category: Conference
Location: Casa dell'Aviatore - Viale dell'Università, 20
Roma, Italy
Event Contact E-Mail: segreteria@afcearoma.it
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