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Never before has cybersecurity been so serious as in this precise moment in history. Dozens of sensitive targets. Suffice it to say that an alert has been issued by the Computer Security Incident Response Team, of
the National Agency for Cybersecurity
, which invites hospitals to “raise security levels to the maximum”, paying “maximum attention to e-mail, antivirus, sites exposed to the outside. Unfortunately, these are also acts of war”. Similar communications have been issued throughout Italy. In Lazio, for example, where the regional health system is on high alert and the level of cybersecurity has been raised. In short, the risk of cyber-attacks is high for Italian government bodies but also for companies.

If, clearly, a cyber attack is a destructive damage for companies, it is even more so for the public administration which finds itself managing millions of sensitive data of its citizens. An attack on the IT systems of the public administration is an attack on the heart of the State.
Enough of prevaricating, the time for postponements and decisions taken with a dropper is over. What the country needs is to invest in its IT infrastructure by adopting technologies, regulations and security measures that are there, work and are just waiting to be implemented.

The Cloud for the Italian Public Administration is about to become a reality, the “Cloud Italy strategy”, in fact, was announced by the Minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition Vittorio Colao in the autumn of 2021 and aims to eliminate the more than 11,000 data centers scattered throughout Italy, making the data of at least 75% of Italian public offices transmigrate to the Cloud. The plan will be completed by 2025 with 1.9 billion from the PNRR, according to the “
Digital Italy 2026
” program which includes “Cloud and Digital Infrastructure” among its pillars and has sanctioned the Cloud First approach, with the migration of Public Administration data to a cloud environment. The adoption of Cloud computing in the public sector requires an in-depth and systematic analysis of the implementation model and the appropriate cloud service (private, public, community, hybrid/IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), taking into account the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of each.

“The cloudification” of the public administration is not only “a great investment for the State and for the relationship between the State and citizens, but also for businesses and for innovation themselves” said Minister Colao himself. “The transition to the Cloud, if efficient and scalable, will allow the creation of a participatory ecosystem of companies and startups capable of improving the quality of the applications and software in use by the PA, as is already the case in many other countries”.

Meanwhile, the team composed of
Tim
,
Leonardo
, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and
Sogei
has presented the final offer for the construction of the National Strategic Hub as part of the European tender for the assignment of the design, construction and management of an infrastructure for the provision of Cloud services for the Public Administration, i.e. to all central administrations which are about 200, the Local Health Authorities and local administrations (Regions, metropolitan cities and municipalities with more than 250 thousand inhabitants). At least 75% will have to migrate to the cloud by 2025. And woe betide anyone who thinks that it is only a technological issue: it is also economic and geopolitical.