The Milan the 22 percent of Italian companies last year was the victim of cybercrime. Are micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, given that more than 95 percent of Italian companies has more than 10 employees. Worldwide
2014 was an "annus horribilis" for information security: over 12
months, in fact, the raids criminals have marked an increase of 258
percent. And,
the set of accidents that resulted in economic losses and / or
reputational businesses in 2014, 3 percent took place in Italy. It detects the latest "Global fraud survey" of Kroll, a leading global provider of "risk solutions" in information. In
12 months, the Italian companies have lost about 9 billion dollars due
to fraudulent external interventions on their sensitive data. A figure that rises to $ 14.1 billion if you include losses derived from downtime of IT systems. Yet,
in Italy, the perception of IT risks does not fall even among the 10
warmest dangers from companies, reveals "Allianz risk barometer 2015"
(the survey conducted by the multinational insurance group on economic
risks in the 47 countries most Hindu-ized) while, on the contrary, their perception, and step by step the consistency, global registers high levels of growth. Italy ranks only 15th place for protection policiesdata and only 10 percent of business is in step with the times in cyber defense. Although,
in our country, the situation is far from rosy, as effectively
described by the study "Gaining from digital information" on security,
conducted by Trend Micro. According
to this "paper" Italy is in fifth place in the world for botnets (that
and say infected and remotely controlled) active, the third highest
number of spam (unwanted email) sent, eighth for malware (software
designed to induce damage to systems or users) for the financial sector and banking online, fourth for number of malicious App. The
phenomenon of cybercrime, in fact, traveling at a speed greater than
the development of awareness of users and also the same tools to fight
"cybercrime". An example for all? The
UNICRI (United nations interregional crime and justice research
institute), in a study on the impact of crime on the economy and Italian
SMEs, notes that, in our country, is not yet operational the National
Cert. Ie
the team of emergency response of a digital nature, the duty to monitor
and manage incidents and help users restore activities, Interface
Italian center of European command against "cybercrime". Now they have to forge ahead, in the public and private sectors. A
system of SMEs - especially based on the economy of the districts -
primary needs of security, because it is based on the interconnection
between industries. Between
Italian companies, especially small and active in the fields-pillar of
Made in Italy, is traditionally widespread (and, often, is a decisive
competitive strength also in international markets) process innovation
or product of informal, unprotected ie by patents or other legal instruments. In
areas highly creative innovation is objectively less defensible by
patent and business sub suppliers are often forced to quickly adapt
their production to the changing needs of the client. But
the lack of legal protection puts even more at risk communication and
exchange of experiences related to these innovative processes
made-in-house. Finally,
the demand for security comes from strong "fourth industrial
revolution", the digitalization of production processes in so-called
"intelligent factories". In
Germany, where about four years ago has manifested this phenomenon, one
of the problems immediately emerged was just what the system security. In
times of innovation 4.0 protect new factories run by the chip and their
huge amount of sensitive data from outside access has become a
categorical imperative. And one of the most important challenges for a production system based on manufacturing. As in Germany. And in Italy. (L.pal.)
