February - 20208GOVERNMENT CIO OUTLOOKNicola Sotira is the Head of Poste Italiane's CERT. He has worked in the field of information security and networks for over twenty years, with experience gained in international environments. Contexts in which he dealt with cryptography and security of infrastructures, also working in the mobile and 3G networks. He has collaborated with various magazines in the IT sector as a journalist contributing to the dissemination of safety and technical-legal issues. Lecturer at the Master in Network Security at La Sapienza University and LUISS University.Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 2004 and promoter of technological innovation, he collaborates with various start-ups in Italy and abroad. Member of Italia Startup in 2014, wherewith some companies, he participated in the development and project of services in the mobile field, collaborates with Oracle Security Council and is General Manager of the Global Cyber Security GCSEC Foundation since 2016. OPINIONIN MYe are experiencing years where the development of technology is increasingly in an exponential way. Technology that, also, has potential threats in it for us, that is, the specter of a ubiquitous surveillance architecture active 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Architecture that, we have seen, makes the interests of large OTTs (Over the Top), or those who manage the buying and selling of our personal data and, importantly, the predictive part of our habits and behaviors. A scenario in which Facebook is now one of the authoritative sources of behavioral models. This economic model is defined in Zuboff's book "The Age Surveillance Capitalism"; a scenario in which data is at the base of real wars and power movements that challenge even democracies.Analogue agents and intelligence activities."You were with the Israelis or with the Americans?" Thus, began the dialogue between Simone Pace, CIA operative agent in Italy, and the journalist of the novel "American Education" by Fabrizio Gatti. The book describes a network of agents that manipulates and influences delicate historical passages and Western democracies. A "covered network that is like a big picture on which unsuspecting citizens move, governments and states where agents paint new figures and add colors."In the book, a former spy decides to reveal to the journalist a series of truths about some relevant CIA activities in Europe, reconstructing the work of a special cell of American services that carried out undercover actions, managing politics by interfering and changing the story. The book is an excellent example of how a government's intelligence works and how they select, recruit information sources and create the assets underlying this activity. The intelligence activity is the product deriving from the collection, evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of the information collected.The development of an intelligence product requires the collection of information from different sources, sources that must be selected based on the objectives required by the organization.The product of this activity provides the states with the information necessary to promote their national interests, in the Gatti book, previously mentioned, this aspect is particularly highlighted. Intelligence organizations generally look for information regarding military capabilities, issues that threaten national security, economic programs, and diplomatic positions. In the digital/cyber scenario, similar scenarios are used in order to prevent threats or to gather strategic information; increasingly sophisticated programs are Nicola Sotira, Head Of CERT, Italian post [BIT: PST]ByEVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENCE SERVICES IN THE DIGITAL WORLDW
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