Giuseppe Zuffanti
Coordinator for Cyber issues and for the Cyber ETEE Platform – Project Manager/Training Manager for Cyber – National Expert, European Security and Defence College (ESDC)
Relatore a Cyber Crime Conference 2026
From October 2020, he has been seconded as Senior Thecnical Director from the Italian National Police of State to the European Security and Defence College (ESDC). He is the ‘Coordinator for Cyber issues and for the Cyber Education Training Exercise and Evaluation (ETEE) Platform’, Project Manager and Training Manager for Cyber and his responsibilities cover, among others, the coordination between ESDC Cyber providers. He provides primary support to the Chair of the ESDC’s Executive Academic Board on Cyber domain, ensuring a smooth flow of information and strategic alignment across key cyber defence initiatives, and represents the ESDC in the EU–Ukraine and EU–NATO Cyber Dialogues. His main goal in the field of the Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP): contributing to the training programme and conceptual documents, supporting the implementation of ESDC courses with a focus on cyber security/cybercrime/NIS/external relations, cooperating with relevant services in the EU-Institutions, the EEAS and EU Agencies. Furthermore he is the focal point for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation and for the ‘European External Action Service Knowledge Management Working Group - Peace, Security and Defence (PSD) lessons process’ and he is responsible for the ‘ESDC internal Lessons Learnt process, annual meetings and ESDC Team Building’. Moreover he supports the implementation of the EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy, the Cyber Defence Policy Framework 2.0 (EEAS is leading), the EU’s Cybersecurity Skills Academy and the European Cybersecurity Skills Framework (ECSF) of ENISA. Since 1992 he works for the Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs – Department of Public Security – National Police of State. He has worked in various positions and offices in the public order and safety sector of the Police of State, Italy where is also was the Director of the Digital Forensic Lab of Piedmont and Aosta Valley. He has also served as IT manager for informatics security policies at the Immigration Office in Turin. He worked at Postal and Communications Police - Piedmont and Aosta Valley as officer for eight years, preventing and combat Cyber Crime. He holds a Master's Degree in Information Treatment Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Scientifically Technologies from Computer Science Department of Turin, Italy. He holds the qualifying examination to Computer Science Engineers (state register) from Polytechnic University of Turin and a MSc in Engineering Management of Public Security from University of Naples Federico II, Italy. He is interested in the Artificial Intelligence area and for that reason, he developed his thesis in the area of the Mobile Robots after three years of research under the Lagrange Project, Turin.