Undersecretary of Defense Angelo Tofalo at the conference Cybertech Europe spoke of "Cyberwarfare".

"A project I am already working on is to build a cybernetic armed force that will have to protect the defense network and at the same time be able to hit".

The government's priority, therefore, is to enhance cyber capabilities and, as far as Defense is concerned, this can be done by purchasing a tank less, one plane less, one ship less ".  According to industrial sources, Il Sole 24 Ore writes, among the hypotheses a reduction in the purchase of Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter-bombers. Speaking of F 35, the government should read the editorial by the former Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Pasquale Preziosa, 

Gus Hunt, former member of the CIA (Chief Technology Officer) and now Cyber ​​Strategist of Accenture, said that according to an Accenture study with the Ponemon Institute, the average cost of computer crimes reached 2017 million dollars in the 11,7 per company, with an increase of 23% compared to 9,5 million dollars of 2016 and 62% in the last five years. US companies support the highest average cost of 21,2 million dollars, while Germany has the most significant growth with an average cost that has gone from 7,84 to 11,15 million in 2017. In Italy the average cost is 6,73 million dollars per company.

“Small and medium-sized businesses are the most vulnerable to cyber attacks,” Hunt said. The Israelis present at the conference in this regard, "we must do more than the others, because Israel is the country that suffers the most cyber attacks in the world". There are many cyber security companies and startups in Israel. The direct revenues of these companies in Israel amount to about 1,4 billion a year, but with indirect business the number could be higher. Israeli companies are also trying to increase penetration in Italy. We have seen a slight increase in collaboration between Italy and Israel, but not as we would have liked ».

On the sidelines of the worksManaging Director of Leonardo, Alessandro Profumo, spoke of the order won in the US for the MH-139 helicopters together with Boeing, "it is important in itself but it does not change the numbers of every single year". The total order has a value of 2,4 billion spread over ten years. Profumo did not specify how much Leonardo's share is worth, “we have constraints for which we cannot give the precise number”. The idea of ​​allying with Boeing as a "prime contractor" for the US tender was born in 2016, when the head of the helicopter division was Daniele Romiti, replaced a year ago in the post by Gian Hero Cutillo.