Gianluca Galasso

Head of Operations Directorate and CSIRT Italia, National Cybersecurity Agency, Italy

Gianluca Galasso is the Head of Operations Directorate and CSIRT Italia of the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency.

Former Admiral Officer of the Italian Navy, he has over thirty years of experience in the telecommunications and cybersecurity sector acquired during his military career. During this period, he held the most important sector positions, both in the technical, operational and policy fields, including the command of the Italian Navy's telecommunications and information technology center and three combatant surface ships.

Since 2017, after moving to the roles of Presidency of the Council of Ministers, he has taken an active part in the process of defining and developing the national cybersecurity architecture, with particular attention to the technical-operational aspects of the new national regulatory framework. In this role he contributed to the transposition in Italy of the NIS Directive and to the definition of the operational outlines of the National Cyber Security Perimeter Law. He also participated in the work for the definition of the law establishing the National Cybersecurity Agency and its subsequent operational launch, holding the position of Head of the Operations/CSIRT Italia Directorate since September 15th, 2021.