CEO & Founder @H4ckmanac | Top 100 Women in Cybersecurity | Board @Clusit & @WomenForSec | Deputy @Assintel Cyber Think Tank | Made in ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น, based in ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Joined July 2013
๐Ÿšจ#CyberSecurity needs 2 cultural changes: 1โƒฃ It can no longer be managed with a perimeter approach 2โƒฃ It's not (anymore) just a branch of IT ๐Ÿ”—Here my interview with @startup_italiaโคต๏ธ startupitalia.eu/tech/sofia-โ€ฆ #cyberattacks #strategicthreatintelligence #sofiascozzari #hackmanac #clusit #womenforsecurity
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Grazie a @sole24ore e a Gianni Rusconi per avermi dato lโ€™opportunitร  di approfondire un tema ancora poco noto: il cyber espionage in Italia. Quando si parla di attacchi informatici, si pensa quasi sempre a ransomware, phishing o DDoS, ignorando minacce piรน silenziose, spesso non rilevate, ma che minacciano ciรฒ che conta di piรน per aziende e istituzioni: informazioni, competenze, accessi. Nellโ€™articolo sono ripresi alcuni dei casi italiani raccolti nel report dedicato che con @H4ckmanac abbiamo preparato e condiviso con la redazione. La posizione dellโ€™Italia in UE e NATO la rende di per sรฉ un obiettivo, e nel mirino non ci sono solo le istituzioni, ma anche le aziende che detengono dati sensibili, proprietร  intellettuale o accesso a supply chain strategiche. Leggi qui lโ€™articolo completo ๐Ÿ‘‡ ilsole24ore.com/art/le-azienโ€ฆ Il report completo non รจ pubblico: se ti interessa riceverlo, scrivimi in privato e te lo invio.
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Cybearly Forecasting 2027, nella stupenda cornice dell'Aurum di Pescara, รจ sempre un'esperienza. Sala piena, interventi innovativi, tanti ragazzi delle scuole pronti per la cyber challenge e colleghi speaker che รจ sempre bello ritrovare ogni anno
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Tomorrow with our company @H4ckmanac we'll be at ๐…๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” as ๐„๐ฑ๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐‚๐ฒ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ง๐ž๐ซ, and our President ๐€๐ง๐๐ซ๐ž๐š ๐™๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐ณ๐จ๐ง๐ข will speaking about ๐™Ž๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™œ๐™ž๐™˜ ๐˜พ๐™ฎ๐™—๐™š๐™ง ๐™‡๐™ค๐™จ๐™จ ๐™„๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™œ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š, with a world premiere preview of ๐‡๐š๐œ๐ค๐‹๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ, our newest platform to estimate the economic losses of cyber attacks. ๐Ÿ“… Friday, 9 October, 14:00-14:45 (GST) ๐Ÿ“ Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Deira Creek Come to visit us if you are in Dubai! We can also offer a preview of our latest ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐ฒ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐‹๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ #ECSM #CybersecurityMonth @ftechexpo @Saiber_Man
๐–๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š ๐œ๐ฒ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐ข๐ฌ. ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ. And tomorrow in Dubai, you can see it first. We'll be at ๐…๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” @ftechexpoย as ๐„๐ฑ๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐‚๐ฒ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ง๐ž๐ซ, and our President ๐€๐ง๐๐ซ๐ž๐š ๐™๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐ณ๐จ๐ง๐ข will speak about ๐™Ž๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™œ๐™ž๐™˜ ๐˜พ๐™ฎ๐™—๐™š๐™ง ๐™‡๐™ค๐™จ๐™จ ๐™„๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™œ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š, with a world premiere preview of ๐‡๐š๐œ๐ค๐‹๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ, our newest platform to estimate the economic losses of cyber attacks. ๐Ÿ“… Friday, 9 October, 14:00-14:45 (GST) ๐Ÿ“ Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Deira Creek If you're in Dubai, or at the event, come and find us: we'd love to show you where cyber risk quantification is going and to offer a preview of our latest ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐ฒ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐‹๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ
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Our latest #HackTuesday just went viral on X! We are very proud of the incredible engagement on this week's threat intelligence data. And in the right month too! #ECSM
๐ŸŸง #HackTuesday ๐ŸŸง Hack Tuesday: Week 30 Sep - 06 Oct 2026 โš ๏ธ512 cyber attacks across 68 countries โš ๏ธ โžก๏ธThe most active threat actor last week was NoName057(16) claiming responsibility for 31 cyberattacks. โžก๏ธThe USA is the most affected country, accounting for 20.7% of incidents, with 106 cyber attacks. โžก๏ธThe Gov / Mil / LE sector is the most targeted, accounting for 16.6% of incidents with 85 cyber attacks. โžก๏ธThe estimated Critical cyber attacks account to 98 (19.1% of the total). โžก๏ธOverall, the claimed compromised data amounts to approximately 61.2 TB. More details: hackmanac.com/news/hack-tuesโ€ฆ
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ABBIAMO DAVVERO BISOGNO DI PROTEGGERE I NOSTRI VOLTI CON IL COPYRIGHT? La Danimarca ha appena proposto di proteggere i cittadini dai deepfake generati dallโ€™intelligenza artificiale garantendo il copyright sul volto, voce e corpo. Se da una parte la soluzione puรฒ sembrare estrema, dall'altra bisogna prendere atto che lโ€™intelligenza artificiale generativa ha accelerato in modo esponenziale la creazione di deepfakes convincenti ed economici, mentre le normative esistenti non sono pronte per affrontare una sfida di questa portata. La soluzione danese basata sul copyright offre quindi vantaggi concreti, ma presenta anche alcune criticitร . Ho analizzato in dettaglio la proposta, approfondendo perchรฉ l'aspetto giuridico รจ controverso e indicato dove potrebbe invece essere risiedere una soluzione piรน efficace e duratura. Leggi qui lโ€™analisi completa โคต๏ธ
Denmark has just proposed giving every citizen copyright over their body to protect against AI-generated deepfakes. This extreme solution, offers both real advantages and some issues. We analysed the proposal, and where a more durable answer might lie.
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Insieme ai colleghi del ๐‚๐ฒ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐“๐š๐ง๐ค di @Assintel, Mark Alan Barlow, Jim Biniyaz, Vittorio Orefice e Marco Scognamiglio, con la supervisione di Antonio Assandri e Davide Giribaldi, abbiamo tradotto in italiano la "๐™‚๐™๐™„๐˜ฟ๐˜ผ ๐™‹๐™€๐™ ๐™‡๐™€ ๐™‹๐™ˆ๐™„: ๐™ž๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™š๐™ข๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฏ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™™๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™– ๐™„๐™Ž๐™Š/๐™„๐™€๐˜พ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ:๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ". La guida, pensata per supportare le PMI nell'applicazione della norma e nella gestione della sicurezza delle informazioni, รจ completamente gratuita e scaricabile dal sito Assintel: assintel.it/wp-content/uploaโ€ฆ
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I can't vote because that would be cheating ๐Ÿ˜œ, but you try to guess โคต๏ธ
#MondayPoll: Which sector took the biggest economic hit in H1 2026?
35%Manufacturing
33%Wholesale / Retail
32%Gov / Mil / LE
110 votes โ€ข Final results
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Thank you, @TechRoundUK, for including me among the ๐“๐จ๐ฉ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐–๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐‚๐ฒ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” techround.co.uk/tech/women-iโ€ฆ
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With my company @H4ckmanac we will be ๐„๐ฑ๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐‚๐ฒ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ง๐ž๐ซ at ๐…๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐จ ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐›๐š๐ข ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” @ftechexpo! ๐Ÿ“ Dubai ๐Ÿ“… 09 October 2026 Come to meet us if you are in town!
Replying to @H4ckmanac
@H4ckmanac is the Exclusive Cybersecurity Partner of FutureTech Expo Dubai 2026. Real-world cyber threat intelligence. Stronger cyber defence. ๐Ÿ“ Dubai ๐Ÿ“… 09 Oct 2026 ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Get your pass now #FutureTechExpo #FTE2026 #CyberSecurity
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[ITA] Domani 29 luglio 2026 alle 12:30 (ora italiana) / 14:30 (ora UAE) terrรฒ un webinar per @IICUAE (๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐š ๐๐ข ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ข๐จ ๐ˆ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ง๐š ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ฅ๐ข ๐„๐ฆ๐ข๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข ๐€๐ซ๐š๐›๐ข ๐”๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข) dal titolo "๐™„๐™ก ๐˜พ๐™ฎ๐™—๐™š๐™ง ๐™๐™ž๐™จ๐™  ๐™šฬ€ ๐™ช๐™ฃ ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š๐™จ๐™จ ๐™๐™ž๐™จ๐™ : ๐™˜๐™ค๐™จ๐™– ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™– ๐™˜๐™–๐™ข๐™—๐™ž๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ค ๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง๐™˜๐™๐™šฬ ๐™ง๐™ž๐™œ๐™ช๐™–๐™ง๐™™๐™– ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™๐™š ๐™ก๐™š ๐™‹๐™ˆ๐™„". In un'ora approfondiremo lo scenario cyber globale con un focus specifico su Italia e UAE, le differenze tra settori e dimensioni aziendali, e perchรฉ il rischio informatico non รจ piรน una questione da delegare (solo) all'IT. La partecipazione รจ gratuita e aperta a tutti: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regiโ€ฆ [ENG] Tomorrow, July 29, 2026, at 12:30 PM (Italian time) / 2:30 PM (UAE time), I will be hosting a webinar for the ๐ˆ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ & ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ž ๐Ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”๐€๐„ titled "๐™„๐™ก ๐˜พ๐™ฎ๐™—๐™š๐™ง ๐™๐™ž๐™จ๐™  ๐™šฬ€ ๐™ช๐™ฃ ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š๐™จ๐™จ ๐™๐™ž๐™จ๐™ : ๐™˜๐™ค๐™จ๐™– ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™– ๐™˜๐™–๐™ข๐™—๐™ž๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ค ๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง๐™˜๐™๐™šฬ ๐™ง๐™ž๐™œ๐™ช๐™–๐™ง๐™™๐™– ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™๐™š ๐™ก๐™š ๐™‹๐™ˆ๐™„" (๐˜พ๐™ฎ๐™—๐™š๐™ง ๐™๐™ž๐™จ๐™  ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™– ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š๐™จ๐™จ ๐™๐™ž๐™จ๐™ : ๐™ฌ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™˜๐™๐™–๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ฎ ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š๐™ง๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐™Ž๐™ˆ๐™€๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ค). In one hour, we will cover the global cyber landscape with a specific focus on Italy and the UAE, the differences across industries and company sizes, and why cyber risk is no longer (only) an IT issue. The webinar is free, open to anyone interested and will be held in Italian. Join here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regiโ€ฆ
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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! This is my 13th #XAnniversary! #MyXAnniversary
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๐Ÿšซ ๐๐š๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ค๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐จ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ž๐๐ข๐š: ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐๐จ๐ง๐ž I wrote this article with two hats on. As a cybersecurity professional, I look at the wave of social media bans for minors, from Australia to the UAE, the UK, and a dozen more countries, and I see the enforcement leaking on several sides. Platforms cannot reliably verify identity at scale, and at the same time adults cannot realistically supervise a generation that grew up with a smartphone in hand. As the mother of an under-15, I see it from closer up. My daughter is the child of two cybersecurity experts. If the rules of a ban were the only thing standing between her and an app, she would be around them before dinner. The point is that a ban is a starting condition, not a solution. We need three category of solutions to actually protect children: โžก๏ธ ๐„๐๐ฎ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง for them and adults (parents or teachers) โžก๏ธ ๐‹๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฌ โžก๏ธ ๐€ ๐๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž๐ฌ designed for minors from the ground up. The social media harms for kids are real, so the response has to be more serious than a threshold and a fine. Read here the full article โคต๏ธ
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Avendo avuto la fortuna di conoscerla, oltre che di leggerla, pensare di aver perso la voce autorevole di @carolafrediani รจ irreale. La sua newsletter @GuerrediRete, cosรฌ come i suoi numerosi libri, รจ da sempre una lettura imprescindibile per chi si occupa di temi cyber. Riposa in pace, Carola, e grazie per tutto il pesce ๐Ÿ˜” guerredirete.it/addio-carolaโ€ฆ
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๐€๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐€๐ˆ ๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐‘๐ž๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ฒ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ I've just published a new article on a topic I've been thinking about for a while now: ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐€๐ˆ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ฒ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐๐ฌ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ž: the real shift in how security operations work, how teams are structured, and how organizations need to rethink risk. These autonomous systems can reason, plan, act, and learn from outcomes with minimal human oversight. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง๐ญ, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ. Most importantly, I strongly believe ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐€๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐›๐ž ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ฌ, ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ. Organizations that treat it as a shortcut to cut staff and costs will find themselves exposed the moment these systems encounter something they can't handle alone, ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐š๐ฒ ๐š ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ž๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ. I explore all of this in my latest article and I'd love to hear your perspective, especially if you're already navigating this shift in your organization.
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