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Antonio Giannino

The “nervous system” of cybersecurity: data, automation, and response to reduce risk

Today’s companies face a paradox: a greater number of security tools has led to greater complexity, data overload, and critical visibility gaps, effectively increasing the risk of breaches. The average Security Operations Center (SOC) is flooded with more than 10,000 alerts per day, with an estimated 30% not even reviewed due to volume and a high false-positive rate. This phenomenon, known as alert ...

Gianluca Meloni, Daniele Astrella

Rethinking Risk Assessment: A Systemic Approach to Risk Measurement

Company management, understood as the balanced governance of the relationship between risk and return, is not a new topic, although it has evolved dramatically over time. While from a traditional perspective, this relationship was mainly interpreted in economic and financial terms, with the development of corporate governance models, the concept of return has gradually broadened to encompass a company’s ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Abba Laura

The Internet Needs Good Governance

Autumn 1969 in California saw the birth of the ARPANET, which enabled the transmission of data from one computer to another and laid the basis for the creation of a Network on a global scale in the following decades.#Today 4.39 billion people use the Network, 57 percent of the world’s population. One of the crucial questions is that of Internet Governance, which must be managed through a multi-stakeholder ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Castagnoli Adriana

Pressures and Tensions in Transatlantic Relations

Between 2004 and 2012, the United States and the European Union were each other's most important trading and investment partners; with annual trade of over 4 billion dollars, they generated 50% of the world's GDP and a third of global trade flows. Moreover, with the return to the White House of an Atlanticist president like Joe Biden, Washington has come back to the center of the climate agenda, re-entering ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Ghiretti Francesca

The Birth and Evolution of the Chinese Question

China is the player that has undermined US world hegemony the most, challenging not only the international system that came into being after 1945, but also its founding values and their universal character.#In recent years, technology supply chains, and primarily semiconductors, have been at the center of competition between the United States and China. The geopolitical nature of the technological ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Colangelo Giuseppe

Digital platforms: an (almost) all-out battle

For several years now, Big Tech companies have been held responsible for almost every evil of modern society: the spread of fake news, hate speech and terrorist content; the publishing crisis and the threat to Western democracies; product counterfeiting and tax avoidance. Contrasting with the legislative hyperactivity of Australia, UK, and Europe with regard to Big-Tech companies is the relative inactivity ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) De Stefano Federica

Human Resources in the Time of People Analytics

By People Analytics (or HR Analytics) is meant the use of data to advance how organizations make decisions about people, and help leaders operate based on evidence rather than intuition. Given the increasing availability and granularity of data on employees that has characterized the last decade, the interest of managers, consultants, and academics for the use of People Analytics in the management ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Gesualdi Marco, Prencipe Annalisa

A New Era of Lease Accounting

The new accounting standard IFRS 16 significantly modifies the recording of leases in financial statements, eliminating the distance between operating and finance leases, and requiring the recognition of right-of-use assets in the balance sheet, with the simultaneous recording among liabilities of the current value of the payment commitments assumed.#The shift to IFRS 16 has translated into a significant ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/1) Tomasi Giovanni

Cost and Performance Competitiveness in the Construction Sector

The civil construction sector in Italy is going through a period of particular economic tension. Unlike in other European countries, over the decade from 2010-2019, the sector was unable to return to the levels prior to the 2008 recession, even touching volumes lower than those at the start of the millennium. In a mature, highly competitive sector with stagnant demand such as that of construction, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/2) Diaferia Lorenzo, Salviotti Gianluca

What’s Behind Artificial Intelligence?

According to various estimates, during the course of the next 10 years, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on global GDP will reach 15.7 trillion dollars. Although many of these evaluations are symptomatic of a sector subject to fads, the importance of AI has led the United States, China, and the European Union to draw up internal plans for development in this field.#Companies interested in ...