Alessandro Tanasi
Chief Information Security Officer & Senior Partner
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Tanasi is a seasoned cybersecurity leader and hands-on engineer with 15+ years of experience in offensive and defensive security, currently serving as CISO and Senior Partner at a luxury fashion house while also leading cybersecurity strategy and operations in a separate technology role. He blends deep expertise in penetration testing, malware analysis, botnet tracking and incident response with prolific open-source contributions to projects like sqlmap, Cuckoo Sandbox and the hostmap discovery tool. Comfortable in both development and systems roles, Alessandro builds security tooling and automations in Python, Ruby and Java and has practical experience hardening large financial environments. Known among peers as a meticulous, slightly grumpy craftsman of code and documentation, he pairs curiosity-driven research with pragmatic, business-aligned security design.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in elettronica e telecomunicazioni, Diploma in elettronica e telecomunicazioni at Istituto Tecnico Industriale G. MarconiComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Università degli Studi di Trieste
English, Italian, German
Github Skills (9)
content-management-system10
content-management10
python10
documentation10
security-txt9
security-scan9
hacking9
develop8
security8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jekil/awesome-hacking
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
Awesome hacking is an awesome collection of hacking tools.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Content Contributor
Backend Developer & Content ContributorContributions:488 commits, 13 PRs, 757 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro contributed to the project by addressing formatting issues in the Readme.rst file, correcting the table of contents, and adding new content sections with links to relevant tools, particularly in the areas of security and hacking. They focused on curating and expanding the list of hacking tools and resources within the repository. The user also provided content for various sections of the documentation.
security-toolsbugbountysecuritynetwork-toolsforensics
cuckoosandbox/cuckoo
Mar 2011 - Nov 2016
Cuckoo Sandbox is an automated dynamic malware analysis system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1226 commits, 11 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro's commits primarily focused on adding and improving the codebase's documentation, with pydoc comments added to several files. The user implemented a postprocessing feature, including the creation of the postprocessing feature itself and a few related tasks. Additionally, the user addressed and fixed issues within the code base, and the user provided minor fixes.
system-analysiscuckoo-sandboxcuckoosecuritydynamic-malware-analysis
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