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Cybersecurity, Undersecretary Mulé: “Now the Defense can make attacks to react”

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Cybersecurity, Undersecretary Mulé: “Now the Defense can make attacks to react”

The Defense is preparing to carry out cyber attacks to react to hackers more or less activated by hostile national subjects. The news was made known by Undersecretary Giorgio Mulè at the delivery of the final diplomas of the Luiss Master in cybersecurity. «Recently, in the discussion in Parliament of the Aid decree, article 88 of the Com, the code of the military system, was revised. The assignment of cyber defense operations to the Ministry of Defense has been envisaged. As is the case with the Armed Forces, which have not only the capacity but also the duty to intervene.

The institutional framework

“The cyber resilience resides in the National Cybersecurity Agency. There cyber investigation it is a function of the Ministry of the Interior and of those who have investigative skills. There cyber intelligence it is entrusted to the information and security services. Now finally – underlines Mulè – the concept of cyber defence at the head of the Ministry of Defense “. The undersecretary recalls: “The Defense has tools and operational capabilities that can be considered a garrison to protect national security”.

A new rule

Mulè highlights how «the cyberspace assumes characteristics that are increasingly of particular interest for the defense, especially when it produces threats to national security that inevitably involve operations cyber warfare. In this case, the “special forces” of the fifth domain intervene »the cyber one. He recalls how “this is possible because six years ago NATO and the EU recognized cyber space as a theater of military conflicts and considered it in the same way as traditional domains”. A new battlefield is at stake, unexplored and without physical boundaries.

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The new system

Article 88 of the Com provided: “The military instrument is aimed at allowing the permanent availability of command and control structures of the Armed Forces and interforces” in particular “of land, naval and air units of rapid intervention, responsible for the defense of the territory national and maritime and air communication routes “. The integration of the system announced by Mulè and now introduced in Parliament adds “cybernetic and aerospace” units to military land, naval and air units. Just as the defense of the land, sea and air territory extends to “space infrastructures and cyber space in the military field”. Mulè does not say it but among the experts the level of cyber attacks in the space sector is known. Very high, more and more intense. It can become the new defense cyber military mission theater.

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