Digital Innovation TECHNOLOGICAL UNIT
Digital Innovation TECHNOLOGICAL UNIT
Digital Innovation TECHNOLOGICAL UNIT
Since 2013, the .it Registry has activated a project that provides for the study, design and construction of its own Worldwide network infrastructure for the provision of certain services according to the Anycast model and, in particular, for the provision of a DNS anycast service of the .it.
Anycast technology allows you to have multiple servers with the same name and IPv4 and IPv6 addresses located in strategic and nerve center points of the Internet. This is in order to increase the efficiency and resilience of services and allow greater robustness towards Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
The infrastructure is completely managed by the staff of the Digital Innovation Unit and currently consists of 13 nodes.
The project led to the foundation of a cybersecurity laboratory which aims to implement network, system and information security techniques and methodologies, in order to increase the reliability and resilience of the domain name registration system. In particular, critical applications and protocols such as DNS, http, e-mail, etc. are examined. Systems are also developed for real-time analysis and monitoring of network traffic and services.
The laboratory’s activities also include those relating to the ISO / IEC 27001: 2013 certification of the .it Registry, legislation that defines the requirements for a reliable and secure management system for information security.
We also established strategic collaborations and coordination with national and international organizations in the field of network and information security, such as MISE, CERT, the European Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA).
The project started on the occasion of EXPO 2015 and aims to understand, evaluate and monitor how companies exploit the Internet potential, also analyzing the possible existence of a digital divide both in terms of product sectors and geographically.
The project analyzes and verifies the online presence of some leading sectors of the Italian economy, such as agro-food, tourism and ICT, creating study and analysis models that can also be used in other product sectors and exported internationally.
The project involved the study, implementation and evaluation of various methodologies and algorithms for the analysis and classification of web content and gave rise to the design and implementation of a high-performance crawler and a permanent Internet Observatory in the Agri-food, ICT and Tourism sectors. The Observatory analyzes and monitors, in real time, the diffusion on the Internet of companies operating in these sectors, classifies them on the basis of the Economic Activities defined by ISTAT (ATECO 2007) and studies their diffusion, distribution and digital divide on a geographical scale.
The project studies and analyzes the diffusion of the Internet in Italy using the endogenous metric of domain names registered in the ccTLD .it.
The research is characterized by two innovative aspects: on the one hand, the use of a new indicator, namely domain names, considered more reliable and objective than traditional indicators such as host counts and exogenous metrics; on the other hand, the accuracy of the results, the territorial distribution of the dissemination (the study is carried out at national, macro-area, regional, provincial and, in some cases, municipal level) and the identification of the typology of registrants (companies, non-profit organizations, individuals, freelancers and public bodies). The research therefore also makes it possible to verify the possible existence of the digital divide in Italy, not only at the level of categories of subjects, but also at the geographical level, and analyzes its potential causes.
ePAS (Electronic Personnel Attendance System) is an attendance detection and management system designed and implemented as part of the “e-Government” project between the ICT Office of the CNR and the IIT.
The system was developed completely in-house and is based on open source software: soon its code will be released on the CNR GitHub.
ePAS allows the acquisition of information related to staff entry/exit stampings and to daily and hourly absences; carries out checks on the consistency of stampings on the basis of the national contract; manages calendars and workflows for the processing of work in shift and availability; allows the attendance certificates sending and grants each employee the possibility to check their attendance situation, meal vouchers, recoveries, overtime, etc.
Today it constitutes the official system for detecting and managing the attendance of CNR personnel, it is integrated with the CNR information system and it is hosted at the CNR CED in Rome.