“At the height of the (hybrid) war in the Middle East, the majority in the Constitutional Affairs and Justice Commissions of the Chamber of Deputies voted for a sort of ‘ban’ on Israeli companies specializing in cybersecurity.” This is what Luigi Garofalo writes on the cybersecitalia.it website.
Yesterday the majority parties “in giving the green light to the bill on Cybersecurity, voted for an amendment to introduce into article 10 ‘rewards for the use of cyber technology from Italy or from countries belonging to the European Union or from acceding countries to NATO. In fact, a sensational exclusion for Israeli companies, among the most advanced countries in cybersecurity. As we know, Israel is not part of NATO”, we read in the article.
“But what does NATO have to do with it – asks the author of the piece – if the aim is (or rather was) to contribute to the achievement of European technological and strategic autonomy and to prevent the paradoxical effect which, with the growth of the market cyber, could increase the supply of foreign technologies, thus exposing Italy to a geopolitical risk? Instead of this sensational ‘ban’, wouldn’t it be better to indicate ‘trusted’ countries and to whose cyber companies should be attributed the concept of reward? were it to be confirmed in the Montecitorio Chamber, where the text of the bill is expected from Monday 13 May for the general discussion, it would be a great slap in the face to the much (only) vaunted national-European technological and digital sovereignty”.
