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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