Alessandro Lazari

Fellow in Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience
University of Salento, Italy & International Association of CIP Professionals

Alessandro Lazari is a Fellow in Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience at the University of Salento, Italy.

Alessandro received undergraduate education in Bologna University – Faculty of Law (Italy). He completed his Master’s Degree with a thesis on “Constitutional rights related to trials” in 2004. He then applied to the Specialisation School of Law at University of Lecce (Italy) and got his specialisation in 2006, with a dissertation on “Cyber crimes and digital forensics”.

In 2013 he defended his PhD in “Computer Engineering, Multimedia and Telecommunications” at the University of Florence – Department of Systems and Informatics – with a dissertation on “European Critical Infrastructure Protection. Ten years after 11th of September 2001 and an Outlook to the Future”.

Between 2011 and 2016 he has been nominated Senior Lecturer in ‘Legal Informatics’ at the Specialisation School of Law – University of Salento (Italy). In 2016 and 2017 he has been lecturer at the Course “Protecting Critical Infrastructures” at NATO Centre of Excellence Defense Against Terrorism (COEDAT) in Ankara (Turkey).

Alessandro was part of the ERNCIP Project from December 2010. During the following 7 years, he has worked on policy support to the “European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection”, to “Strengthening Europe’s Cyber Resilience System and Fostering a Competitive and Innovative Cybersecurity Industry”, as well as on research and development of pre-normative support to standards, establishment of certification schemes for security products and development of qualified training for security managers.

He has also assessed and analysed the impact of security-related policies and regulations on European Union’s Member States and extracted best practices and key performance indicators. He is author of the book ‘European Critical Infrastructure Protection’ published by Springer Inc. in 2014.

His areas of expertise include Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience, Physical and Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructures, Information Sharing for CIPR, policy and strategy making for CIP, advanced qualification and training for security managers, transboundary cooperation and crisis management.

Sessions

Workshop: Developing and Implementation of Risk Assessments and Emergency Management
Workshop/Table Top Exercise: How do we actively and successfully develop and implement a Risk Assessment at national level, identify critical infrastructures and entities, and assess all relevant hazards and threats? In this interactive and engaging workshop, we will discuss and highlight key factors in the process and how to translate them into a resilience strategy.
Developing and Implementation of Risk Assessments and Emergency Management within CER and NIS2
Developing and implementing Risk Assessments under CER and NIS2 necessitates identifying critical infrastructure and entities and assessing all relevant hazards and threats, including natural induced disasters like floods and earthquakes and man-made incidents. Integrated governance ensures these assessments inform robust resilience planning and emergency management frameworks. It is important to establish clear responsibilities, communication protocols, and coordinated actions across sectors to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptions caused by both cyber and physical events, ensuring continuity of essential services.