Until its merger with the Comando C4 Difesa in 2020, it was called Joint Cybernetic Operations Command (Italian: Comando Interforze Operazioni Cibernetiche, CIOC) The project of an Italian cyber command, modelled on the United States Cyber Command was envisaged in the 2015 Defence White Paper.

The cyber defence is related to the static defence and protection of the network, carried out in cooperation with the rest Italian military, in order to ensure the integrity of the network and the availability of the data flows.

The cyber network-defence is related to the ability to carry out the vulnerability assessment and penetration test, in order to provide a quick intervention.

According to Defence Undersecretary Gioacchino Alfano, the Command is intended to operate mainly in joint, inter-agency and NATO contexts, as well as in coordination with university and economic worlds.

[5] With regard to the domestic cyber security organization, the Department of Information Security has the leadership, via the Deputy Director responsible for cyber security;[1] the operational arms are the Joint Cybernetic Operations Command and the State Police CNAIPIC (Centro Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture Critiche, Critical Facilities Anti-Informatic Crime Protection Centre),[1] as well as the national CERT.