The head of the secret services speaks: "Absolute security does not exist" The head of the secret services, Franco Gabrielli, explained the risks of the war in Ukraine for Italy By: VirgilioNotizie | Published on: 03-14-2022 23:46
Italy is about 1,600 kilometers as the crow flies from Ukraine, where a bloody war has been fought since February 24, unleashed by Vladimir Putin's Russia. Is our country safe? The answer came from Franco Gabrielli, undersecretary to the presidency of the Council with responsibility for security, head of the secret services. Here are his words. • Is Italy safe? The head of the secret services answers • Attack on the Government of Israel: what happened • What does NATO have to do with IT security • The Kaspersky antivirus is Russian: are we safe? • What happened to Isis? Gabrielli's answer Is Italy safe? The head of the secret services answers Franco Gabrielli, undersecretary to the presidency of the Council with responsibility for security and head of the secret services, was interviewed on the microphones of Quarta Repubblica, a program broadcast on Rete 4. According to the former police chief, "absolute security does not exist. Whenever those with responsibilities try to give a reconciling and reassuring representation of reality, they do not do the country a good service ".
"Obviously - he added - there is a security system that is made up of the police forces, the armed forces and intelligence. Before the war began, on February 24, we exchanged various information with the American, British, French and German secret services ". Attack on the Government of Israel: what happened In this regard, Franco Gabrielli announced during the interview that "a few minutes before arriving here we recorded a very important attack on Israeli government sites, which represent the top of security". "Although temporarily - he added -, the attack resulted in the compromise of a significant part of those sites".
What does NATO have to do with IT security Gabrielli then explained that NATO, the military alliance system within which Italy also exists, "to the 3 classical domains, namely, land, sea and sky, has added a fourth domain, which is space, and then a fifth domain, the cybernetic one “. "It may seem an addition that does not cause consequences - he said -, but the alliance is a system that thrives above all on the need and the possibility that all countries contribute to safeguarding the attacked countries. So NATO also considers a military attack a cyber attack “. What are the risks, in detail? "Today everything travels through information systems: transport, energy, health. You could receive an attack and have no energy: it is one of the possible scenarios, on which you have to work ".
The Kaspersky antivirus is Russian: are we safe? At the end of the interview, Gabrielli also spoke about the Russian Kaspersky antivirus: "It is one of the best performing in the world. It has been on Mepa, the Electronic Market of the public administration, since 2003: but now we are asking ourselves the problem. In Europe no country, with the exception of Holland, has banned it ". The goal, however, is that of technological autonomy: "Without technological autonomy there is no IT security. If we do not create a condition of autonomy we will not go anywhere ". What happened to Isis? Gabrielli's answer Finally, a reflection on media attention and the dangers: "Unfortunately we are used to judging only the present, what is not in the spotlight we think is over, like Al Qaeda or Isis, which continue to operate in some areas of the country and perform a worrying function ". “Today what happens in Ukraine is the main focus, but let's not forget the rest. Too often we don't realize that the world and dynamics continue to exist. The world and its threats are bigger than the West ", he concluded".
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