Bio

Director of the Digital Infrastructure Department at the University of Pisa. 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, specialising in vulnerability assessment and ransomware defence, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), ICT GDPR compliance, the NIS and NIS2 Directives, DORA, and EPDB guidelines. My learning journey has been unique: grounded only minimally in theory, developed far more through hands-on experience and, above all, through the lessons learned from mistakes and from the battle to defend ICT systems. 25 years of experience in the design of hyperconverged digital infrastructures, with expertise in metropolitan datacentre networks, evolving from ATM/MPOA to MPLS and ultimately to Fabric IP networks. Extensive experience in the study of ultra-low-latency, zero-jitter networks, particularly for east-west intra-datacentre traffic. Experience with in-band telemetry and postcard telemetry applications, as well as the study of deep buffer and small buffer utilisation in east-west traffic. Security of HPC traffic with minimal impact on inter-node communication performance. Co-author: collaborated with Antonio Cisternino in the development of an innovative security model called “Bubble Security”, based on the principles of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA).