Leonardo has opened its Cyber & Security Academy, the new high-level training centre established by the company to provide Defence, public administrations, critical infrastructures and businesses the skills and capabilities necessary to support the digital transition and face threats to national security.
The Cyber & Security Academy, based in Genoa, will offer courses and seminars in Italy and abroad through various structures on the territory. The aim of the training course is to make cyber security a systemic theme for all organisations.
The proprietary platforms Cyber Range and Cyber Trainer are at the core of the Academy. Designed with the principles of gamification (using mechanisms similar to those of games, with the assignment of objectives and rewards for each achievement), they leverage both virtualisation and interoperability to simulate immersive operational scenarios. Utilising “digital twins” of networks, systems and applications to be protected, as well as threats and tools for both attack and defence, both individuals and groups will be able to put into practice the skills acquired to defend the infrastructure. Leonardo’s platforms are able to support exercises with digital twins of thousands of nodes and hundreds of networks, simulating up to five complex scenarios simultaneously, with multiple teams and tens of users per team.
The Cyber & Security Academy will count on the experience acquired by Leonardo in the physical and cyber protection of critical infrastructures in over 150 countries around the world and on the information assets developed by dealing on a daily basis with particularly sophisticated threats in the most critical and strategic domains: Aerospace, Defence and Security. With over 100,000 cyber-protected users, Leonardo monitors approximately 115,000 security events per second and manages over 1,800 cyber alarms per day.
Faculty will be comprised of professionals in critical security domains, utilising the skills of Leonardo’s experts and of collaboration with the academic world, centers of excellence, institutions and companies.
The Cyber & Security Academy also represents an opportunity for the territory and the Italian training supply chain, supporting Leonardo’s Lab and HPC davinci-1 in the industrial digitisation hub created by Leonardo in Genoa.
The Cyber & Security Academy is meant for all actors involved in national security. Security is increasingly being put to the test by cyber threats: according to the latest report by CLUSIT (the Italian Association for Information Security), 2,049 serious cyber-attacks were recorded in the world in 2021, almost 10 percent more than in 2020, and cybercrime has cost $6 trillion globally. Through its cyber threat intelligence activity, in 2021 Leonardo identified macro cyber threats linked both to eCrime, aimed at financial profit, and to growing cyber intrusions to the detriment of government, defence, aerospace and health sectors, but also of energy and telecommunications, without forgetting the industrial world. The objectives are the most disparate: from the collection and exfiltration of sensitive data and information, to sabotage, up to the compromise of strategic infrastructures and defence capabilities of governments and institutions.
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