Luigi Garofalo

Luigi Garofalo

Editor in chief, Cybersecurity Italia

Cybersecurity Italia

Biography

40 years old, professional journalist specialized in Cybersecurity, Technological Innovation, Data Protection, TLC, 5G, Public Administration and Digital Health. From May 2021 he is the Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Cybersecurity Italia, which promotes and organises the Conference CyberSec.

 

On April 2021 he had the exclusive news, directly from Franco Gabrielli, former undersecretary of State with responsibility for the Secret Service, that the Draghi government was going to establish the National Cybersecurity Agency, “to holistically manage cyber security”. The Agency was established two months later.

Here the video interview he made, on March 2022, to Roberto Baldoni, General Director of the National Cybersecurity Agency, on the Agency headquarters.

His biggest scoops are his two sons.

He collaborated, among other, with the newspapers L’Espresso and Il Messaggero. He has written the book “Complici – La relazione pericolosa tra l’Italia e il regime di Gheddafi” – Editori Riuniti (Accomplices ­– The dangerous relationship between Utaly and the Gaddafi regime) with Giampiero Gramaglia, former director of ANSA, on 2011. He graduated with honors at the University ‘La Sapienza’ at the Faculty of Communication Science.