Competenze digitali means the knowledge required to understand how technology affects business decisions, operations, and risk. In cyber security, this does not mean everyone must be a developer or analyst. It means decision-makers can evaluate dependencies, security controls, third-party exposure, data handling, and the business impact of outages or compromise.
This matters because weak digital literacy often creates blind spots at the top of an organization. Attackers benefit when leaders underestimate phishing, identity abuse, cloud misconfiguration, vendor risk, or recovery time. Good digital competence helps boards and managers ask practical questions: What fails first? Who owns the control? Is the risk acceptable? How quickly can the business recover? In defense, these skills improve governance, investment choices, incident readiness, and oversight of critical systems.