Introduzione – Il rapporto MOTUS-E/Ambrosetti sulla filiera industriale allargata dell’e-mobility Dino Marcozzi, Segretario Generale MOTUS-E
Interventi Scenari globali e prospettive italiane: quale futuro per il settore automotive? Pasquale Salvatore, Center for Automotive and Mobility Innovation Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
Macchine e linee automatiche per la produzione di componenti per motori elettrici nel comparto automotive: l’eccellenza italiana di ATOP Massimo Ponzio, ATOP Chief innovation Officer
“Second Life” e riciclo: la nuova vita delle batterie. Progetti in corso e stato dell’arte Luigi De Rocchi, Responsabile Divisione Studi e Ricerche di COBAT
Ruolo dell’Industria dei Semiconduttori per una Mobilità eco-sostenibile Filippo Di Giovanni, Strategic Marketing Innovation and Key Programs Manager STMicroelectronics
Tavola rotonda: sviluppo filiera e-mobility e riflessi sul settore automotive Modera: Massimo Degli Esposti, Giornalista Vaielettrico
Intervengono: Stefano Sordelli, Future Mobility Manager Volkswagen Group Italia Luisa Di Vita, Direttore Comunicazione Nissan Italia Roberto Di Stefano, Head of EMEA e-Mobility FCA Group Rappresentante Volvo Italia (tbc)
Batterie a flusso innovative Matteo Fedeli, Process Manager Green Energy Storage
ISWEC, Energia dalle onde Andrea Gulisano/ Giuliana Mattiazzo, Politecnico Torino (tbc)
Una nuova batteria liquida Alessandro Pastore, BETTERY
Evoluzioni e prospettive del solare termodinamico Gianluigi Angelantoni
Conversione biochimica della CO2 nei processi di accrescimento di microalghe per la produzione di biodiesel e composti ad alto valore aggiunto Luciano Falqui, PLASTICA ALFA SpA
Eolico ad alta quota Marco Ghivarello, KGM1
Conclusione Gianni Girotto, presidente Commissione Industria del Senato Paola Pisano, Ministro dell’Innovazione
Edge computing sites are cropping up all over, driven in large part by Internet of Things (IoT) technology and digital transformation efforts that are generating enormous amounts of data that demands localized processing and storage. At the same time, the proliferation at the edge is creating a new challenge: how to effectively secure all these far-flung environments.
To manage edge computing sites, companies are increasingly instrumenting power and cooling systems, racks, UPSs, PDUs, and cabinets such that they can collect performance and operational data from them, typically via Internet connections. Doing so, however, creates a security challenge: all of those devices are now potential points of entry for cyber-attacks. Compounding the problem, the facility managers who oversee data center infrastructure previously haven’t had to worry about security and don’t necessarily have the expertise required to determine where vulnerabilities lie, nor should they be expected to.
Indeed, even seasoned security professionals struggle with the issue because they can’t get visibility into the data center infrastructure to determine what may be at risk of an attack.
That’s because acquiring device information means logging into each device individually or looking at data log files filled with data from network management cards (NMCs). It’s not feasible for a security professional to do either for hundreds or thousands of UPSs, PDUs, racks, cooling units, and other data center infrastructure — both in centralized data centers and geographically dispersed edge computing facilities. Even at 20 devices, the chore begins to get time-consuming and difficult.
Outlining IoT Security Risks for Edge Computing
But the risks are real. Just last month security researchers in the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center announced they found attempts by “a known adversary” to compromise popular IoT devices across multiple customer locations.
“These devices became points of ingress from which the actor established a presence on the network and continued looking for further access. Once the actor had successfully established access to the network, a simple network scan to look for other insecure devices allowed them to discover and move across the network in search of higher-privileged accounts that would grant access to higher-value data,” Microsoft said. “These simple attacks taking advantage of weak device management are likely to expand as more IoT devices are deployed in corporate environments.”
A survey of 625 risk management and governance experts by Ponemon Institute illustrates the point. It found 26% of respondents in 2018 suffered an IoT-related data breach, up from 15% in 2017.
The issue arises at an inopportune time, as companies continue to build data centers, including edge data centers, to accommodate IoT, digital transformations, and other efforts that are driving the need for more compute power. In each one, they’re also connecting previously unconnected devices, only adding to the potential attack surface.
Clearly there’s a growing need for tools that make it easier to manage power and cooling network security from the data center to the edge, without requiring scarce security experts to do the heavy lifting. Companies need a way to quickly determine whether devices need firmware updates to get the latest security patches, or if they’re not configured properly, such as using the HTTP protocol instead of the secure HTTPS or Telnet vs. SSH. Some devices may be so old they don’t support secure communications protocols and simply need to be replaced.
EcoStruxure™ IT Expert Offers a New Device Security Vulnerability Assessment
Schneider Electric is working to fill the void with a new security assessment offering as part of its EcoStruxure IT Expert platform. IT Expert is a next-generation DCIM software leveraging cloud-based technologies to monitor data center infrastructure and collect data to drive applications, including preventive maintenance.
The new security monitoring feature enables customers to assess the status of infrastructure devices for all kinds of data center infrastructure — UPSs, PDUs, and in-row cooling systems. The assessment will alert you to configuration errors that can cause potential security vulnerabilities, if firmware is out of date, and whether devices are too old to support modern security best-practices and should be replaced. This assessment can uncover issues that may have previously been unknown. For example, David Radszuweit, CEO Linespotting AB, a pilot customer of the assessment shared, “Even if I know what I am doing and do it pretty well after 25 years, I found security issues on my devices that I didn’t think existed. It was a real eye opener.”
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Complacency is no answer in the face of the very real security threats that IoT devices present. You need to take action to protect your data centers, and your company. Click here for your free trial of the EcoStruxure IT Expert monitoring software and its new assessment to start countering security threats now.
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Sì ai prodotti usa e getta, no alle bioplastiche: la plastic tax non sarà una tassa generalizzata
(Rinnovabili.it) – Si è tenuto ieri a Roma il convegno sull’economia circolare organizzato da Il Messaggero, occasione per fare chiarezza da parte delle istituzioni sulla cosiddetta plastic tax, la tassa sulla plastica introdotta dal nuovo DL Clima. Presso l’Auditorium di Roma, erano ospiti il ministro dell’Ambiente, Sergio Costa, e il ministro dell’Economia Roberto Gualtieri, oltre a scienziati ed esperti di fama mondiale come Michael Braungart ed Enrico Giovannini.
Rispetto alla plastic tax, Gualtieri ha specificato che l’imposta ha lo scopo principale di disincentivare i prodotti monouso e promuovere materie compostabili ed eco-compatibili. Non si tratterebbe, dunque, di un tributo generalizzato sulla plastica, materiale molto diffuso nel nostro quotidiano, ma di uno strumento con il preciso obiettivo di limitare l’impiego di oggetti usa e getta, “che usi una volta e rimangono nell’ambiente per centinaia di anni”, ha dichiarato il ministro. “L’imposta sarà per esempio applicata sulla bottiglietta di acqua minerale ma non sulla borraccia che viene riempita più volte”.
Sulla scia degli esempi, il ministro dell’Economia ha dichiarato che la plastic tax riguarderà i bicchieri usa e getta, ma non quelli di plastica progettati per essere utilizzati un numero indefinito di volte. Inoltre, l’imposta sarà limitata e commisurata al peso della plastica e non riguarderà le bioplastiche. “Introdurremmo anche un incentivo per le innovazioni dei processi produttivi che sostenga la riconversione verso la produzione di bioplastiche o di plastiche compostabili, che non saranno soggette all’imposta”, ha detto ancora Gualtieri.
Al contempo, anche il ministro dell’Ambiente Costa ha sottolineato che, rispetto alla plastic tax, serve un’accurata modulazione, declinando il concetto di tassa sulla plastica in modo diversificato, per aiutare quelle aziende che vogliono cambiare il sistema produttivo. A tal proposito, ha aggiunto, tra le fila del governo vi sarebbe già un accordo sull’esclusione dei prodotti riciclabili e biodegradabili, e sulla necessità di mettere in campo azioni che portino alla riduzione del packaging in plastica.
Come sottolineato anche a Il Messaggero a margine dell’evento, per il ministro un sistema ecocompatibile non si ottiene con le tasse, ma con gli incentivi.
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