
The director general of the ACN, Andrea Quacivi, warns in a parliamentary hearing that cyber threats to the banking and insurance sector are constantly evolving, requiring close institutional collaboration for the stability of the system.
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The National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) monitors digital threats affecting the country's critical infrastructure.
"The cyber threat" to the banking and insurance sectors "is increasingly articulated and complex and can produce effects on the reliability of services, the trust of citizens and more generally on the stability of the country system".
This was stated by ACN director Andrea Quacivi during the hearing at the commission of inquiry into service banks, according to which these threats "are increasingly articulated and complex" with "continuously evolving attack methods". Quacivi noted that the problem "does not concern individual operators and for this reason collaboration" between institutions and authorities such as the ACN and the Bank of Italy and others is essential.

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