01 September 2025

Intelligence, instructions for use

"In today's complex and conflictual world, intelligence is the practice that allows us to acquire knowledge and awareness," observes Marco Lombardi, Director of the ITSTIME Research Center – Italian Team for Security, Terrorist Issues & Managing Emergencies, at Università Cattolica.


We live in a context of information overload, where the intelligence of the scenario is the result of a competent activity of collection, selection and interpretation of the available information.

In this context, quality training is crucial.

"Open Source Intelligence - Osint enables us to collect and organize information that is freely available, especially in the digital domain," Lombardi continues.

"Itstime is a well-known and accredited reality at numerous national and international institutions, which provides training from Central Europe to the Balkans, from Central Asia to North Africa. With the Graduate School Aseri, for the first time it offers this training in the "Intelligence C4" Summer School, which will begin on September 15, where you will learn, I expect from the model developed by the research center, first to work safely with the software that will be provided on specific cases, and then learn the techniques of proactive Intelligence, such as the management of Avatars in network penetration and predictive and simulative Social Network Analysis to attack adversarial networks".  

"In the face of a world in conflict, we need new skills to deal with new threats, and at the Summer School we want to provide them."

Intelligence C4. Knowledge, understanding, awareness, communication.
Limone sul Garda, from 15 to 19 September.

The fee includes full board at the host facility.