“In an entirely digital society, a shield against the bad guys should be simple to use and accessible to all, while few today can afford it.” Stefan Umit Uygur, 42 years old and very Italian despite his name, he tells it from Dublin where he founded the startup 4Securitas. Born and raised in Cosenza, left Italy in 2006 “due to excess bureaucracy”, after having built network infrastructures around the world and lived in twenty different countries, he decided to offer a system for IT security able to automatically stop an attack before it is even launched and at a price ten times lower than the average. Curious the list of his customers. Alongside multinationals such as the Portuguese Sovena, the 4Securitas technology is used by an Irish company that organizes the streaming of masses and funerals.
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by Fabio Tonacci
During the health emergency, his services became very popular, attracting the attention of a group of computer pirates who took possession of some videos and then demanded the ransom. Today the owner, who has no specific training in cybersecurity, manages the protection of his company from the smartphone. In fact, not only are large companies and infrastructures at risk, such as the water purifier in the town of Oldsmar in Florida recently attacked by a hacker, but also small and medium-sized enterprises.
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by Tiziano Toniutti
If there was a map of productive Italy in digital form, we would see four million and 400 thousand bright dots throughout the territory. These are the companies of our country and of these just over 200 thousand fall into the category of small and medium-sized companies that have between 10 and 249 employees and represent 41 percent of Italian turnover according to the Politecnico di Milano. Micro-enterprises are even more numerous, 95 percent of the total, 25 percent of national turnover. Here, many of the micro, small and sometimes medium-sized enterprises are exposed to cyber attacks. According to the report of the Italian Association for Information Security (Clusit), the cybersecurity sector is worth one billion and 400 million euros a year for us. It may seem like a lot but it isn’t: roughly the same amount is spent on video games and consoles which, with all due respect for digital entertainment, have a very different weight in the security of the country. Of the 254 companies born since 2018 specializing in IT security, 57.1 percent are North American, 19.7 Asian and 20.5 European. The Italians? Two percent. This means that out of the total of 3.8 billion dollars in loans received by these startups, the Italian share is five million euros.
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“In Italy we have lost a lot of ground,” he says Eugenio Santagata, at the head of Cy4gate, a company of the Electronics group. “Only 20 percent of our cybersecurity companies use their own technology. Consequently, these are solutions made elsewhere that are rarely the latest version or with a high rate of automation, ie systems that detect the preliminary reconnaissance of hackers and block them the starting point before the attack. And it is by no means certain that similar technologies cannot come from startups. It is enough to weigh the Israeli companies, small but inserted in a network of which both the universities and the military apparatus are part “.
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by Alessandro Longo
When you want to break into a system, you do a series of analyzes. Typically we start by testing the victim’s server response through the Packet internet groper (Ping), checking the open ports through which data passes, looking at which services are running and which applications. Then we look for any vulnerabilities until an access point is found. All of this takes days if not weeks and is not illegal. New systems that use artificial intelligence, such as the Automated CyberSecurity Interactive Application (Acsia) developed by Uygur, are able to combine these signals together to identify who is planning an attack.
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“You can go even further,” he explains Aldo Sebastiani, head of Leonardo’s Cyber Security & Digital Competence Center. “Now in the phase of gathering information by hackers there is also the search for credentials to access the company’s systems on the dark web. Predicting the attack therefore passes through the observation of that world and a large part can be made with an AI capable of establishing correlations coming from different areas, triggering the alarm and blocking the infected computer network or the servers used by the attackers. But not everyone needs such defenses, but everyone must have a minimum of knowledge of these issues. Many intrusions arise from careless gestures, the simple opening of a wrong email “.
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The paradox, in Italy, is that, not having our own technology, we sometimes pay too much for that of others sold by intermediaries and it is almost never the most advanced version. The attempt by 4Securitas to provide a digital shield also to the baker near the house appears perhaps a bit romantic at first sight. Yet, considering that the entire country moved online during the pandemic while 40 percent of large organizations and 49 percent of small and medium-sized organizations saw an increase in cyber attacks, it is much more like a necessity.
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