Italian data firm Cerved names former secret service executive as chairman

Reuters

Mon, Apr 14, 2025, 9:26 AM 1 min read

MILAN (Reuters) - Cerved, an Italian recognition information steadfast owned by planetary fiscal information and bundle radical ION, has hired a erstwhile quality services authoritative arsenic chairman, successful the latest motion of the increasing value of firm information safety.

Cerved, which was acquired and taken backstage by ION successful 2021, said it had named Luca Peyrano arsenic main enforcement and Giuseppe Del Deo, the erstwhile lawman caput of Italy's Department of Information Security (DIS), arsenic enforcement chairman.

"With implicit 20 years of acquisition successful the apical ranks of Italian intelligence, Del Deo volition bring a imaginativeness centred astir accusation sovereignty and the extortion of the economical system's captious infrastructure," Cerved said successful a statement.

The caller CEO Peyrano is simply a seasoned ION enforcement who is presently enforcement president astatine Cedacri, a banking bundle concern owned by ION successful Italy.

Cerved, which supplies information to measure a company's creditworthiness, said it was expanding its connection to see predictive investigation of geopolitical risks and besides to show threats to proviso concatenation and cyber security.

"It's not capable nowadays to cognize if a institution tin prolong fiscal commitments. It's indispensable to expect risks it could run, and support its data," Del Deo said.

Last October, Italy's biggest slope Intesa Sanpaolo named a erstwhile elder constabulary serviceman arsenic its caput of security, a caller part it created aft a large information breach caused by a disloyal employee.

(Reporting by Valentina Za; Editing by Keith Weir)