Organization:Joint Cybernetic Operations Command (Italy)
| Joint Command for Network Operations | |
|---|---|
| Comando per le Operazioni in Rete | |
| Active | 30 September 2017 - present |
| Country |  Italy |
| Branch | Defence Staff |
| Role | Cyberwarfare |
| Size | Some hundreds of operators[1] |
| Part of | Defence Staff |
| Garrison/HQ | Castel Malnome, Rome |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander | Vice Admiral Ruggiero Di Biase |
| Deputy Commander | Major General Calogero Massara |
The Joint Command for Network Operations (Italian: Comando per le Operazioni in Rete, COR) is an Italian cyberwarfare military unit. Until its merger with the Comando C4 Difesa in 2020 it was called Joint Cybernetic Operations Command (Italian: Comando Interforze Operazioni Cibernetiche, CIOC)
History
The project of an Italian cyber command, modelled on the United States Cyber Command, was envisaged in 2015 Defence White Paper.[2] The Joint Cybernetic Operations Command, established on 30 September 2017,[1] is intended to achieve initial operational capability by the end of 2018[1] and full operational capability by 2019.[3] In 2020 CIOC was merged with Comando C4 Difesa and redenominated COR.
Tasks
The Joint Command for Network Operations has tasks in the areas of information security, computer network operations, cyber warfare and cyber security. It is designed to be a force provider.[4]
According to the former CIOC Commander, Air Force Brigadier General Francesco Vestito, the Command has two operational focus: cyber-defence and cyber network-defence. The cyber defence is related to the static defence and protection of the network, carried out in cooperation with the rest Italian military, in order to ensure the integrity of the network and the availability of the data flows. The cyber network-defence is related to the ability to carry out the vulnerability assessment and penetration test, in order to provide a quick intervention.[1]
Cooperation
The Joint Command for Network Operations supports and protects military operations, conducts offensive operations, and functions as coordinating body between the Italian Armed Forces and other Italian cyber security institutions.
According to Defence Undersecretary Gioacchino Alfano, the Command is intended to operate mainly in joint, inter-agency and NATO contexts, as well as in coordination with university and economic worlds.[5]
With regard to the domestic cyber security organization, the Department of Information Security has the leadership, via the Deputy Director responsible for the cyber security;[1] the operational arms are the Joint Cybernetic Operations Command and the State Police CNAIPIC (Centro Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture Critiche, Critical Facilities Anti-Informatic Crime Protection Centre),[1] as well as the national CERT.[2] Some other Ministries are linked to the national CERT through their own cyber infrastructures.
Organization
The Command is directly dependent on the Chief of the Defence Staff Defence Staff of the Italian Armed Forces; in particular, it depends on the Deputy Commander for Operations.[4]
In 2019 the Joint Cybernetic Operations Command consisted of the Command and staff element, of the personnel section,[6] of the operational unit, of the training unit (the cyber branch of the TLC School in Chiavari), and of the experimental unit tasked to study malaware and countermeasures.[4]
The Command is to recruit also personnel not part of the military.[6]
The operational unit handles the Cyber Operational Cells, which are the actual operational pawns; those cells are tasked to operate on the field under the field commander, who may employ them in order to achieve his or her operational goals.[4]
The Command was located near the military intelligence service Centro Intelligence Interforze in Castel Malnome near Rome, not far from Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport. It is now located near the Forte Trionfale in Rome.
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Pioppi, Stefano (30 May 2018). "Ecco come ci occupiamo della cyber-difesa nazionale. Parla il generale Vestito - Formiche.net" (in it-IT). Formiche.net. http://formiche.net/2018/05/cyber-cioc-difesa-vestito/. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frediani, Carola (20 January 2017). "Ecco come l’Italia vuole proteggersi dai cyberattacchi" (in Italian). LaStampa.it. http://www.lastampa.it/2017/01/20/italia/cronache/ecco-come-litalia-vuole-proteggersi-dai-cyberattacchi-6v68j3xB6zX7BAT33rPpyI/pagina.html. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ↑ Pierini, Ebe (23 July 2017). "Cyber defence: entro fine anno comincerà ad operare il comando operazioni cibernetiche" (in Italian). Il Mattino di Napoli. http://www.ilmattino.it/tecnologia/hitech/cyber_defence_entro_fine_anno_comincera_ad_operare_comando_operazioni_cibernetiche-2573646.html. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Prende forma il Comando Cibernetico" (in Italian). 20 July 2017. http://www.portaledifesa.it/index~phppag,3_id,1900.html. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ↑ "Cybersicurezza, a cosa serve il Cioc? Risponde Alfano (non Angelino)" (in Italian). Public Policy. Public Policy. 18 April 2017. http://www.publicpolicy.it/cybersicurezza-cioc-risponde-alfano-68908.html. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Tatarelli, Luca (16 June 2017). "EMSO, il grande valore dell'utilizzo dello spettro elettromagnetico come risposta alle minacce attuali - Report Difesa" (in it-IT). Report Difesa. http://www.reportdifesa.it/emso-il-grande-valore-dellutilizzo-dello-spettro-elettromagnetico-come-risposta-alle-minacce-attuali/. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
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