With a report on “The resilience of the smart city: data, knowledge, awareness”, engineer Marco Boero, head of the Green Mobility business unit of algoWatt, opened the second day of CSET 2020, the international Cyber Security for Energy & Transport infrastructure, now in its sixth edition, promoted by the Competence Center of the Ministry of Economic Development, Start 4.0. The conference was dedicated to the security of critical infrastructures and brought together the leading international experts in the cyber security sector for two days at the Palazzo della Borsa in Genoa for a discussion on the digital transition, new technologies and reflections on IT security. A transversal path that covered various aspects of the digital transition we are experiencing, which will allow, with high-level speakers from the main Italian industrial companies and with the reference stakeholders, to have an overall picture in Italy, in Europe and in the world.
“The smart city – explained Boero in his speech – is an urban area where it is possible to optimize and improve the infrastructures and services to citizens, making them more efficient, thanks to the use of digital technologies and technological innovation. The smart city is, therefore, a city capable of guaranteeing a high quality of life for its citizens thanks to the use of connected and integrated technological solutions and systems “. According to algoWatt’s head of Green Mobility in the Internet of Things (IOT) and Smart City sectors, data is the enabling factor. “For this – said engineer Boero – cybersecurity is a determining element. The primary factors that put critical infrastructures at potential risk are directly linked to the convergence of what, until recently, have been disparate technologies. Interconnection and connectivity have profoundly changed the way critical infrastructures are managed: practically all supervisory and control systems in the world are now connected to the Internet and the cloud ”.
