25 Jun 2026
Milan, Italy
IT Security Summit
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Navigating the new frontier of trust, compliance and innovation
The IDC IT Security Italy 2026 is the definitive event for business, security, and technology leaders to explore how to embed trust, governance, and resilience at the core of digital transformation.
Italy is entering a pivotal stage in its cybersecurity and digital modernization journey. According to IDC, European security spending is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of around 9.4% through 2029, with software, analytics, and cloud-native protection leading the market. In Italy, organizations are responding to rising cyber threat activity, expanded EU regulatory requirements, as well as growing national efforts to strengthen digital sovereignty and critical infrastructure resilience.
At the same time, AI is transforming Italy’s security landscape. IDC research shows that nearly 40% of European organizations are already investing in AI or automation, and more than 70% expect AI-driven disruption within the next 18 months.
For Italian security leaders, AI represents both an opportunity and a growing area of risk. It is improving threat detection, incident response, and automation, but it is also enabling new attack vectors such as deepfakes, AI-generated phishing, and automated exploitation. In response, Italian organizations are investing in AI-driven analytics, identity and access management (IAM), and managed detection and response (MDR) to enhance protection while maintaining transparency, governance, and ethical AI adoption.
Agenda
The IDC IT Security Summit, is the ultimate meeting point for business, security, and technology leaders looking to embed trust, governance, and resilience at the heart of their digital transformation strategies.
Join IDC analysts and industry experts to explore how to build trusted digital ecosystems that combine innovation with assurance. Gain insights into Italy’s most dynamic sectors and walk away with actionable frameworks to make security a strategic differentiator, not just a reactive cost.
2026 Prediction
By 2028, 40% of enterprises will use autonomous agent–powered cyber-risk quantification platforms to turn security metrics into financial exposure, guiding budgets, controls, and M&A risk assessments.
Main Themes
Regulation, Resilience and Value Creation
Regulatory compliance is no longer a back-office burden, it’s a strategic enabler. We will explore how organizations can embed regulatory mandates (data privacy, cybersecurity laws, emerging AI/tech rules) into core operations, turning requirements into levers for resilience, stakeholder trust, and business value. Keytopics include cyber-by-design, auditability, vendor accountability, and continuity in the face of disruption.
AI, Automation & Responsible Innovation
AI and intelligent agents are transforming how security is delivered, but with great power comes risk. We will explore pragmatically deploying AI: governance models, guardrails for misuse, prioritization of high-impact use cases, and aligning AI systems with trust, transparency, and accountability.
Operations, Analytics and Resilience Engineering
Detection, response, and recovery are now continuous cycles rather than discrete events. We’ll delve into advanced analytics, managed detection & response, orchestration, external threat visibility (supply chain, third parties), and resilience metrics to operationalize security effectiveness.
The Human Factor: Leadership and Culture
Technology alone doesn’t guarantee security. Leadership, culture, and skill development must align. We will focus on transforming teams, embedding security ownership across functions, and equipping leaders to speak the language of risk and trust to the board, CEOs, and business lines.
Incident and Trust Recovery
Breaches will happen, but what matters is how an organization responds. We will cover crisis communication, forensic response, regulatory handling, insurance, stakeholder trust restoration, and turning adversity into credibility.
Sector and Domain Security Challenges
Different industries and environments pose unique security demands. We will focus on securing critical infrastructure (energy, utilities), connected devices and IoT, healthcare, finance, and emerging environments like smart cities or industrial systems.
2026 Prediction
By 2028, AI agents will be triaging 80% of SOC alerts in the majority of SOCs worldwide.
Speaker
Roberta Bigliani
Group Vice President, Global Lead for Energy & Retail Insights and Industry Hub
IDC
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Roberta Bigliani
Roberta Bigliani is a Group Vice President at IDC, and Global Lead for Energy Insights, Retail Insights, and the IDC Industry Hub.
She leads IDC’s global research, data, and custom delivery agendas for energy, utilities, and retail, and oversees the Industry Hub, which drives cross-industry initiatives and collaboration.
A recognized expert in industry and business transformation, with longstanding experience in energy and utilities, Roberta’s work centers on how AI and digital technologies are reshaping the industry – enabling new business and operating models, enhancing operations and customer experiences, and effectively integrating IT and operational technology.
Her work combines deep sector expertise with a cross-industry lens, helping organizations understand how disruption and innovation propagate across sectors and markets.
Roberta regularly advises senior managers and executives at both technology suppliers and end-user organizations, speaks at international conferences, and moderates executive-level discussions.
She is based in Milan, Italy.
Romain Fouchereau
Senior Research Manager
IDC
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Romain Fouchereau
As senior research manager for IDC’s European Security group, Romain has a specific focus on network security and the security technologies linked to the extended enterprise such as IoT, Edge and IT/OT convergence. He closely monitors the development, evolution, and penetration of these technologies and the approaches vendors are taking to stimulate adoption both at channel and end-user level.
Romain manages the IDC security appliance market tracker for the Europe, which provides market size, vendor share and forecasts for network security products such as unified threat management (UTM), firewall, IDP and content management (web and Messaging) appliances.
Romain also co-leads the European Future of Operations practice, looking at the shift in operational mindset for European organizations to a market-driven outlook that is leveraging digital capabilities to build a resilient organization. Romain has a specific interest in the role of security as business enabler for IT/OT integrations strategies.
Romain joined IDC from a manufacturing industry company, where he specialized in market research consultancy. Within this role he handled go-to-market projects for a variety of products and vendors, focusing on the French and Italian markets.
How to join
The event, which will take place on June 25, 2026 starting at 9:00 am is free of charge (upon filling the registration form), for professionals in the following sectors: Manufacturing, Automotive, Fashion, Finance, Banking and Insurance, Retail, Energy and Utilities, Media, Government, Health, Education, Transports, Logistics, Telecommunications, Personal and Professional Services.
Access to the event is not allowed for non-sponsoring ICT companies (vendor, distributors, reseller, VAR, system integrator), ICT consultancy and services companies, private individuals and freelancers.
The official language of the event is Italian.
Knowledge Hub
The NIS 2 directive – where are we now?
The deadline for the transposition of the EU’s second Network and Information Systems Security directive (NIS 2) came and went in October 2024 with only a handful of member states having completed the task.
European ICT spending implications of NATO’s 5% GDP spending target
At the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague a few weeks ago, member states pledged to allocate 5% of their annual GDP to core defense requirements and defense- and security-related expenditures by 2035.
IAM 2025: The Rise of the Machines
Identity and access management (IAM), and by extension, identity security, is one of the most pervasive and impactful challenges facing all European organizations today, from an operational and risk management perspective.
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