Dr. Mario Lamanna received the degree in Electronic Engineering from the University S. Anna College in Pisa (Italy). He has spent most of his professional career working with Selex ES Finmeccanica SpA, (Italy) and as a Teaching Professor with the University of Pisa. He has been working as Program Manager of a number of international cooperative projects in the fields of Military, Aerospace and Security, in Pisa, Rome, Europe and US. He is presently working with Evoelectronics SRL in Rome, Italy. He has participated in more than 100 international conferences as paper author, session chairman and invited speaker. He is a Member of IEEE and IIIS and an Expert Member of EDA and USA.

Critical infrastructures are a preferred target for cyber criminality. Contrasting the attacks to critical infrastructures is a primary issue for the entire society, due to the essential services they perform. A common multidisciplinary approach to make critical infrastructure secure must be based on the analysis of cultural and geopolitical origins of this kind of cyber crime. The proposed cyber security approach relies on new technologies, namely the use of social networks, the analysis of big data and fusion of real time, intelligence data and environmental data. Given the delicate aspects of human life covered by the specific topic, the use of new technologies must be balanced with human issues, in order to get the maximum benefit and minimize negative side effects.