Fabio Momola, CEO of DHub and Cybertech at the Engineering Group, speaking today at Cybersec 2026 on the topic “Digital as a Strategic Lever between Hybrid Warfare and Cybersecurity,” stated:

“We are living in a phase in which the boundaries between the military and civilian domains have progressively dissolved. War is no longer only military: it is economic and informational. It is a hybrid war that does not strike borders, but essential infrastructures — energy, finance, transport, healthcare — and that manifests itself through blackouts, slowed banking networks, and disinformation campaigns.

In recent years, Italy and Europe have invested increasingly in cybersecurity, but the time has come for a shift in perspective: we can no longer limit ourselves to being consumers of technology for our security. We must become producers.

Artificial Intelligence is a force multiplier in both directions, for attackers as well as defenders. Precisely for this reason, we must orchestrate AI, not be orchestrated by it. There is no need to chase ever-larger and more generic models. What we need are specialized, agile, and vertically adaptable AI models: sovereign artificial intelligence over which we have full governance — knowing what data it is trained on, who governs it, and who is accountable for it.

Cybersecurity is not just technical protection. It is industrial policy. And resilience without technological sovereignty is fragile. Italy has the skills to build this strategic autonomy: national champions, dozens of specialized companies and innovative SMEs in the cyber field, and human capital made up of outstanding professionals and experts.

At Engineering, we are moving in this direction, investing in a concrete architecture that starts from proprietary and open models, specializes them through dedicated platforms, orchestrates them in governed operational workflows, and ensures observability and continuous control at every stage. We do so with the awareness of operating within a dynamic ecosystem rich in excellence.

All the conditions are in place for a systemic approach in which public-private partnership is not an option, but a structural requirement: secure information sharing on threats, integration between large players and SMEs, and the strengthening of a common defense.

In the cyber domain, victory does not go to those who buy better. It goes to those who build better.”