Italy’s healthcare ecosystem is under constant pressure: round-the-clock clinical operations, expanding digital services, growing reliance on third parties, and data sets that are both highly sensitive and operationally mission-critical. In this environment, cybersecurity leadership isn’t just about protecting systems—it’s about safeguarding patient care continuity, clinical integrity, and institutional trust. The leaders below stand out for building resilient security programs across hospitals, healthcare networks, specialized providers, and healthcare-adjacent organizations.
Antonello Di Felice – Chief Information Security Officer, Fondazione Don Gnocchi
Antonello Di Felice brings a structured, program-driven approach to healthcare security leadership, grounded in planning, monitoring, and delivery discipline. At Fondazione Don Gnocchi, he applies strong project governance—using SLAs and KPIs to track complex initiatives—while coordinating internal teams and external vendors to drive security outcomes. His profile also reflects mature executive capabilities: strategic planning and budget ownership, plus proven communication skills developed in consulting environments. With certifications spanning ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ITIL, and hands-on security disciplines, he represents the “execution + governance” blend that healthcare organizations need when cyber resilience must translate into reliable day-to-day operations.
Marco Binazzi – Chief Information Security Officer and Global Risk and Insurance Management Director, Menarini Group
Marco Binazzi sits at the intersection of cyber risk and enterprise risk management, serving as both Chief Information Security Officer and Global Risk and Insurance Management Director at Menarini Group. His background is rooted in building ERM frameworks, designing risk transfer strategies, and establishing insurance and reinsurance programs—including launching a group reinsurance captive and serving as a board director. This dual remit is especially relevant in healthcare and life-science contexts where cyber events can quickly become operational, regulatory, legal, and financial crises. His leadership reflects a governance-forward approach that ties cybersecurity into broader risk appetite, business resilience, and board-level risk decisioning.
Luca Della Giovanna – Chief Information Security Officer, Humanitas S.p.A.
Luca Della Giovanna’s path into the CISO role is anchored in deep infrastructure and enterprise technology experience. At Humanitas, he transitioned from service leadership—supporting Humanitas Research technical needs and defining long-term technical service strategies—into leading the cybersecurity function for the Humanitas Group. His background includes extensive work with enterprise and public-sector environments and significant exposure to IBM ecosystems, including technical pre-sales and proof-of-concept support. With strong network infrastructure expertise and high-level certifications such as CCIE, he brings a practical, systems-first perspective that is valuable in hospital environments where uptime, segmentation, and secure connectivity are foundational to clinical operations.
Andrea Assunto – Chief Information Security Officer, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Matteo Pavia
Andrea Assunto brings a rare combination of healthcare cybersecurity leadership and digital forensics expertise, with over 25 years in information technology. As Chief Information Security Officer at Policlinico San Matteo, he focuses on governance, secure system design, and ongoing compliance with frameworks and regulations such as GDPR, ISO 27001, and NIS2. He has led incident response, risk management, and vulnerability management programs using mature security capabilities like SIEM, SOC, IAM, and Zero Trust. His forensics work—supporting legal investigations and serving as technical consultant roles—adds a strong investigative and evidentiary mindset that can be invaluable in healthcare breach response, ransomware recovery, and regulatory reporting.
Marco Ghizzi – Chief Information Security Officer, Fatebenefratelli – Provincia Lombardo Veneta
Marco Ghizzi stands out for combining healthcare privacy expertise with hands-on delivery experience in enterprise software and process optimization. In healthcare, where privacy obligations are inseparable from operational workflows, his focus on deploying optimized processes and re-engineering data architecture is particularly relevant. His progression from IT project specialization into the Chief Information Security Officer role suggests a leader who understands how to translate security requirements into practical changes across systems, data flows, and day-to-day operational practices—especially important in multi-site healthcare organizations.
Stefano Scaramuzzino – Chief Information Security Officer, ASL Roma 1
Stefano Scaramuzzino operates in a complex public healthcare environment, serving as Chief Information Security Officer at ASL Roma 1. His background reflects extensive experience across networks, systems, and structured environments, supported by broad technical knowledge spanning operating systems, databases, programming languages, and network design/deployment. Public-sector healthcare CISOs often have to balance legacy systems, large-scale organizational workflows, and strict procedural accountability. His profile signals a leader comfortable with large, heterogeneous environments where governance, operational coordination, and technical pragmatism must work together.
Angelo Mura – Chief Information Security Officer, Casa di Cura Igea S.p.A.
Angelo Mura represents a “from-the-engine-room” healthcare security leader—serving as both Chief Information Security Officer and long-standing systems administrator within the same organization. This dual perspective matters in many private healthcare settings where security maturity must be built with practical operational constraints in mind. His background spans healthcare IT operations and data flows, and his tenure suggests deep familiarity with clinical and administrative systems, vendor dependencies, and the realities of supporting secure services over time.
Marco Silvestrini – Chief Information Security Officer and Cybersecurity Officer for Southern Europe, Siemens Healthineers
Marco Silvestrini brings a long, deeply specialized career inside healthcare technology and services, now leading as Chief Information Security Officer and Cybersecurity Officer for Southern Europe at Siemens Healthineers. His progression—from clinical education and specialist roles to healthcare IT solutions leadership and ultimately cybersecurity leadership—signals a strong blend of clinical context and technology governance. That combination is particularly important for healthcare vendors and partners operating across hospital ecosystems, where cybersecurity must align with device environments, clinical workflows, and service delivery obligations.
Demetrio D’Amico – Chief Information Security Officer, IEO Istituto Europeo di Oncologia
Demetrio D’Amico leads information security strategy for the IEO-CCM group, combining governance responsibilities with hands-on coordination of transformation projects across identity and access management, network and cloud security, and architecture/security strategy. His experience includes driving GDPR-aligned initiatives, collaborating with privacy and risk stakeholders, and promoting security awareness across the organization. His earlier work coordinating major infrastructure and data center projects—backup, metropolitan networking, web security filtering, and cloud transitions—demonstrates the operational depth required to deliver resilient security foundations in clinical environments where availability and integrity are non-negotiable.
Francesco Piscitello – Information Technology Manager and Chief Information Security Officer, MedicAir
Francesco Piscitello serves in a dual role that often appears in specialized healthcare service providers: leading IT operations while also holding the Chief Information Security Officer mandate. At MedicAir, his background spans IT leadership and solution architecture, reflecting a practical ability to design and operate secure systems while keeping service delivery stable. This blend is particularly valuable in healthcare-adjacent organizations supporting patient services, logistics, and operational care pathways—where security has to work without slowing down the core mission.
Cyber Resilience as a Patient Safety Imperative in Italy
In hospitals and healthcare organizations, cybersecurity is inseparable from safety, continuity, and care quality. These leaders stand out because they’re not just implementing controls—they’re building operating models that keep critical services running, strengthen governance under regulatory pressure, and raise the maturity of security culture across clinical and non-clinical teams. As Italy’s healthcare sector continues to digitize, the influence of these CISOs and cybersecurity leaders will be central to ensuring innovation remains reliable, secure, and worthy of patient trust.