Business Forum Italy-Norway: Fortgale at the Bilateral Table between Rome and Oslo

The Business Forum Italy-Norway took place at the Farnesina in Rome, opened by Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry Cecilie Myrseth: around 200 participants and more than 90 companies from the two countries, with three thematic tables on energy transition, green maritime, and defence, security and protection of infrastructure. Fortgale took part in the B2B meetings between Italian and Norwegian companies.

For us the third table is not one theme among others: it is our work. Offshore energy, ports, networks and critical supply chains between the Mediterranean and the North Sea share one uncomfortable trait, they are targets. And a target does not suffer "events": it faces adversaries. Behind an anomaly on an industrial control system there is someone with a plan, a motive and a schedule. The industrial cooperation the Forum renewed, a trade volume that has more than doubled in five years, reaching 6 billion euro in 2025, widens the exposed surface at the very moment it creates value. This is what we brought to the table: those who build infrastructure together must also defend it as a single system.

This is Fortgale's posture. We treat attacks on infrastructure for what they are: specific adversaries, studied by sector, anticipated before impact and stopped while underway. We track over 280 adversary groups and attack tools active against the European threat landscape, with a 24·7·365 SOC and senior analysts who contain an attack in minutes, not days. Security for European infrastructure is not a marketing promise: it is a chain of accountability with measurable times.

Knowing the adversary is the first act of defence. Stopping it in time is the second. This is how we read cooperation between two European countries that want to build, and protect, together.