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05 August 2021 The Council of Ministers has approved the appointment of Roberto Baldoni as head of the Cybersecurity agency.

It is learned from government sources.

The prefect Alessandro Guidi, the same sources explain, will go to Dis in place of Baldoni.



Baldoni at the cybersecurity agency, challenge to hackers


Roberto Baldoni is the director of the new Mario Draghi National Cybersecurity Agency. The Council of Ministers gives the green light to the appointment of the person who, to date, has held the position of Deputy Director of Dis where he has brought his experience in cyber security. The government, therefore, concretizes the design of an ad hoc agency that is set up right after the hacker attack that blocked the system of the Lazio Region. The challenge, for Baldoni, is not one of the easiest: Italy's long-term delay in defending its IT network has to be made up for.



The Agency will start with a team of 300 employees, which could increase to 800 between now and 2027. At the forefront there will be the Cyber ​​Security Nucleus, a sort of emergency intervention in the first, delicate, moments of crisis situations.



The Agency will be, in spite of the Foundation that former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte had in mind, a body detached from Italian intelligence, being under the responsibility of the Prime Minister. And to direct it will be Baldoni.



Roman, fifty years old, with studies in information engineering and various experiences in foreign universities, Baldoni is one of the leading Italian experts in terms of cyber security. And he had been entrusted by the Dis with the task of building the perimeter for cybernetic national security, during the Conte-bis. Now the transition to the Agency, while the prefect Alessandra Guidi arrives to replace him.



Baldoni's challenge will first and foremost be to centralize the shield against hacker attacks for the IT systems of public bodies. The goal is to accompany the establishment of a "national cloud" thus standardizing cyber security in the peninsula, which has so far been marked by regionalization. The topic, moreover, could not be more topical and was at the center of the G20 on digitization held in Trieste.



"Thanks to Undersecretary Franco Gabrielli, we are closing the gap of a few years in a few months. It is more a matter of human resources and skills than of money", explained the Minister for Innovation and Digital Transition Vittorio Colao. "We need to increase the size of our data centers and reach a scale that allows for effective defense, we need to improve organizational processes and controls in the private world and also in the public world, and accelerate the migration to the" cloud "", added the minister.



In short, the government is trying to change gear on digital security. Also taking advantage of the Recovery and Resilience Plan, in which digital is one of the central themes: 600 million are available for the sector.