Federlogistica calls for the creation of a national "Cyber Ports and Interports" to support investments in EO Security and digital resilience of logistics SMEs, being the ports and the logistics system are the most exposed vital ganglia to cyber attacks, with potentially devastating consequences in in terms of economic damage, blackouts in the movement of and very high risks in terms of safety. "An attack to a port - highlighted the president of Federlogistica, Davide Falteri - today it doesn't just block a terminal, it blocks the entire supply chain industrial network".

According to Federlogistica, a plan is needed that is "not defensive, but offensive against hackers and anyone attentive to the safety of the logistics sector" which, in addition to the creation of a national fund, provides for the classification of national ports according to the level of digital security, on the model of the "resilience ratings" already used in other sectors, and establish a national protocol between the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Infrastructure and Transport, Cybersecurity Agency National and Federlogistica for monitoring and periodic audits of OT vulnerabilities in Italian ports.

"At the basis of this emergency strategy - specifies the federation again - there is an articulated plan in turn on three characterizing points: the first is that of the training and digital culture, aimed at synergies with Start 4.0 and with entities such as ENEA, Unioncamere, ITS to bridge the digital gap of technicians, operators, managers. The second is that of conscious digitization, promoting the adoption of OT security audits, international standards such as ISO/IEC 62443 and predictive monitoring systems in critical logistics nodes. The third, perhaps the most important, is that of a public-private cooperation leading to a single control room on IT security in transport and logistics". "A control room - recalled Falteri - whose establishment Federlogistica is working with ministries, the Agency for National Cybersecurity, ENAC, Port Authorities and Regions".

"The time has come," Falteri stressed, "to overcome the defensive vision and adopt a proactive model and of OT risk governance. Which means adopting integrated OT/IT company policies; Share threat data between public and private entities; Building alert ecosystems early with the help of AI; make it mandatory for ports to Cyber Risk Management Plan".