Poste Italiane joins European Electronic Crime Task Force

Poste Italiane, US Secret Service and the Public Security Department – Postal Services and Communications Police have signed a cooperation agreement (Memorandum of Understanding) at Viminale ratifying an international alliance to establish a “European Electronic Crime Task Force,” It will be charged with identifying and disseminating new techniques and methodologies to fight Cyber Crimes. It is the first task force to fight cyber crimes outside of the United States.

Massimo Sarmi, CEO of Poste Italiane, Antonio Manganelli, the chief of State Police and Mark Sullivan, Director of the US Secret Service signed the agreement. The US Secret Service is the government agency that is, since 1865, responsible for suppress counterfeit and fraud and protect the President of the United States and foreign dignitaries visiting the US.

Poste Italiane provides the Task Force of its own information technology competence already applied to its traditional business spheres, telecommunications services, financial and eGovernment. Poste Italiane offers the requested know how to guarantee every type of efficiency and usability in Internet, in the electronic commerce and in the activities beside the institutions.

“All the people using the Internet must be able to do that in the safest way,” said Massimo Sarmi, CEO of Poste Italiane. “Cyber Security is today considered as a social and economic priority, and it is a priority of all government agendas.

By means of this strategic agreement with the Secret Service and the Postal Police, first step of a project whose future actions have already be planned, we are bringing together the our abilities to create innovation and our know-how in the field of cyber-security. We have worked toward the creation of a global institution of excellence to serve everyone.

The birth of the European Electronic Crime Task Force creates the first space in Europe where information and skills can be shared between all the actors involved in fighting Cyber Crime: institutions, law enforcement agencies, private operators, universities and citizens.”