Giampiero Nanni, in his Government Affairs EMEA role at Symantec, collaborates with governments and security agencies in EMEA, as well as international organizations like ITU, OECD and OSCE, on policies for cybersecurity, data privacy, critical infrastructure protection and ‘Internet of Things’.
He also leads the discussion around Smart Cities and their need for cyber-security, data protection and resilience, having pioneered and formalized a conceptual approach for it, in the Executive Report “Transformational smart cities: cyber security and resilience” (2013).
Giampiero led the “Technical Report on cyber-security and resilience”, published earlier in 2015 in the context of the ITU-T Smart Sustainable Cities Focus Group, and is currently Rapporteur within the Study Group 20 “Internet of Things and its applications, including smart cities and communities”.
Previous appointments include Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, mainly in Public Sector strategy roles.
Presentation Abstract
Title: Ensuring Smart Cities’ resilience through a robust cyber security posture
Smart City developments and services heavily depend on ICT. In order to ensure service continuity, and resilience, it is essential that smart cities are conceived and developed with cyber security in mind from inception. The need for a sound cyber security posture becomes a political need of the administrations and the wider set of stakeholders, well ahead of the more obvious technological implications. Furthermore, as new developments increasingly rely on IoT, they face new challenges in unchartered territories in terms of (big) data protection and privacy, with significant potential consequences on the city dweller services, safety and wellbeing.
