2022

A key partnershipsupporting global
innovation

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Kaspersky earns the trust and confidence of Piaggio Group,
applying its cybersecurity expertise across day-to-day operations,
supporting motorsport and top-tier research and development.
Piaggio Group is Europe’s largest scooter and motorcycle manufacturer, and one of the world’s leading
players in this industry. Among its brands are Vespa, Piaggio, Aprilia and Moto Guzzi.

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Transport and vehicle manufacturing• Italy• Kaspersky Endpoint Security forBusiness Advanced and Kaspersky
Managed Detection and Response• Includes Maintenance Service Agreement
Enterprise Support• 5,000 endpoints protected by Kaspersky
Endpoint Security for Business• 4,200 endpoints protected by Kaspersky
Managed Detection and Response“Our partnership withKaspersky is built upon
cutting-edge innovation.
Through close collaboration,
we’re able to jointly develop
solutions that match ourevolving security needs.”
Vittorio Boero
CIO
Piaggio Group

Founded in 1884, Piaggio Group has three distinct divisions: two-wheelers, scooters andmotorcycles from 50 cc to 1,400 cc; the Piaggio Commercial division, dedicated to lightcommercial vehicles, such as Ape and Porter; and the robotics division within Piaggio Fast
Forward (PFF), the group’s research center on the future of mobility, based in Boston.
Its technological peak is represented by the Aprilia Racing team, winner of 54 world titles,
and is described as “the most advanced development, innovation and experimentation
platform” by the Piaggio Group.

Challenge
As a global business with offices in India, the United States, Vietnam and China, as
well as multiple locations throughout Italy, the Piaggio Group utilizes an extensive
commercial, communications and data sharing network that relies on safe and reliabletechnology.
“In a company of international scale such as Piaggio Group, with digital content,platforms and services, the risk of a potential attack from the outside becomes aconcrete and growing possibility,” explains Group CIO, Vittorio Boero, who coordinates
all global ICT requirements.
“The key challenge is therefore how we ensure that the continuity and growth of ourservices is protected with the highest possible level of ICT security. It is essential toalways stay up to date, both on malicious behavior, risks and vulnerabilities and on thedefenses we need to remain secure.”
The Piaggio ICT division embarked on the search for a long-term partner, able tooffer a consolidated security platform and a complete range of solutions: specifically,a company capable of understanding the group’s digital transformation programs andthe vital role played by ICT security in protecting investments in the development of
new electric vehicles and new modes of transport.
Based on these objectives, Kaspersky was included in the tender to appoint a newprovider of ICT security solutions for the Piaggio Group.

The Kaspersky solution
After a comprehensive selection process, including detailed proof of concept
development and a bid analysis matrix made up of more than 100 items, Piaggio
appointed Kaspersky.
Now, Kaspersky Endpoint for Security Business Advanced is protecting thousandsof endpoints within the Piaggio Group, with more than 4,200 also enjoying the extra
protection provided by Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response, which accesses
Kaspersky’s global threat hunting teams and applies multiple proactive, automatedsecurity measures.
This comprehensive package also includes Kaspersky Maintenance Service Agreementwith global enterprise-level support.
Kaspersky supported Piaggio during the configuration and installation phase of thepackage of solutions, to meet what it had in mind, and was considered by the ICT
department to be easy to implement and manage. Another strong aspect highlighted
by the Piaggio Group was the professionalism, preparation and flexibility of both theItalian and Russian Kaspersky teams, which proved highly attentive to actual needs
rather than to formality.

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An important contribution
across the Piaggio Group

Collaboration
CollaborationIntegrated, effective implementationand development process

Innovation
InnovationCollaboration

Supporting Piaggio Group’s
ground-breaking developments
in mobility

The successful deployment of Kaspersky solutions has also enabled Piaggio toextend the partnership and to apply its expertise in other areas of the company’s
digital transformation journey, such as providing cybersecurity protection in its
groundbreaking electric vehicles, as well as those with traditional internal
combustion engines.
As more and more sophisticated technology is used in vehicles, both four-wheeled
and two, so the risk of attacks by cyber criminals increases.
As part of the partnership, joint solutions are being developed and, in some cases,
Piaggio proprietary solutions are being created under the guidance of the vendor:
the goal is an all-encompassing integrated safety concept that is able to protect
the entire vehicle, considering the high level of danger involved in hacker attacks
against two-wheeled vehicles. At a time when various automobile and motorcycle
manufacturers are just discovering and assessing an approach to these problems,
Piaggio has decided to solve them together with Kaspersky.
Finally, Kaspersky is continuing its long tradition of supporting motorsport bysponsoring the Aprilia Racing MotoGP team.
Aprilia Racing represents the technological peak of the Piaggio Group, and the worldof racing is the ideal environment in which to experiment and develop cutting-edge
solutions for the group.
These solutions can also be applied in other sectors and this is precisely the added
value that Kaspersky, a 360-degree partner of the Piaggio Group in the racing andindustrial world, is able to offer.

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