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Intelligence italiana sempre più cyber: ecco le nuove figure professionali più ricercate
DIS, AISE e AISI cercano figure capaci di operare su più livelli simultaneamente: dalla comprensione delle tattiche, tecniche e procedure della minaccia cibernetica fino alle attività di reverse engineering e malware analysis. Ecco le figure professionali più ricercate per il reclutamento nei servizi
They’re about creating a world where: bad things are contained disruptions are minimized data stays protected operations keep running the business can breathe Incidents are evidence that adversaries (and accidents) exist. Crises are evidence that impact was achieved. When you don’t have clear impact-based triage and a practiced response motion, you get: frantic context switching because no one knows what to focus on first exhausted analysts because every alert becomes a sprint leadership whiplash (“is this the big one ?”) playbooks that exist on paper but fall apart under pressure a culture where people hesitate to surface issues because they don’t want to trigger chaos Chaos leads to stress. The better objective for most enterprises is: Prevent impact events. Impact events are the moments that actually change your week, your quarter, or your career: Operational Disruption Financial Losses Regulatory or Legal Recourse Brand Damage Health and Safety Many incidents never get close to these outcomes, especially when your program is doing its job. They are incidents and if it is contained before an impact event, They’re proof the system is working. Impact-first detection: what it looks like in practice This doesn’t mean “ignore the early stuff.” It means connect early signals to impact paths and respond proportionally. Classify events by their proximity to impact Ask: How close is this activity to something that would matter to the business? Far from impact: recon noise, commodity scans, blocked malware, low-confidence alerts On the path to impact: suspicious auth patterns, privilege escalation signals, persistence behaviors Near impact: encryption behaviors, mass file access anomalies, high-volume egress, admin actions on crown-jewel systems Your detections should increasingly prioritize “near impact” behavior, not just “interesting” behavior. Tune response around outcomes, not adrenaline Not every alert needs a war room2 Build response tiers that map to consequences: “Investigate and watch” “Contain and validate” “Eradicate and recover” “Escalate to crisis response” (rare and reserved for actual impact risk) 3. Because it lets you focus on the work that creates leverage: visibility into identity and privilege misuse telemetry that actually supports investigations response actions that reduce blast radius fast detection coverage for data movement and encryption behaviors faster root cause analysis and hardening loops In other words: the things that stop bad days, not just bad signals. How to start shifting your program this quarter If you want to operationalize “incident doesn’t have to be a crisis,” try these moves: Define impact events explicitly for your environment (ransomware, exfil, fraud, destructive acts, critical outages). Map your top attack paths to those impact events (identity > privilege > lateral movement > data access > egress). Audit your alert queue: what percentage of alerts are tied to impact paths vs “interesting but low consequence”. Build response tiers that align to business impact, not alert severity labels. That’s what a modern detection and response program should deliver: composure speed containment and most importantly… no meaningful impact Because incidents are inevitable.
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Durante un’intervista in un podcast, il segretario di Stato olandese alla Difesa Gijs Tuinman ha sostenuto che un F-35 potrebbe essere “jailbreakato” “proprio come un iPhone”, nel contesto di una domanda molto concreta: cosa accadrebbe se, per ragioni politiche o strategiche, gli Stati Uniti smettessero di fornire supporto e aggiornamenti software agli alleati europei. Il …