Francesco Picasso
Cyber Security Specialist at UNICC
Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Picasso is a Cyber Security Specialist and Ph.D. in Electronic Systems for Information Security with 13 years of experience leading digital investigations, incident response and network security across industry and international organizations. Currently at UNICC, he combines hands-on threat hunting and IR with a decade as CTO of a security firm, bringing both operational rigor and strategic leadership. A SANS-certified instructor and prolific student of SANS programs, he pairs deep academic research—holding a patented anomaly-detection method—with practical forensic skills. He contributes to notable open-source forensics tooling like plaso (implementing SELinux audit log parsing and tests), showing a commitment to community-grade forensic engineering. Based in Italy, Francesco blends offensive curiosity (“sometimes evil, but ethically”) with measurable outcomes in complex investigations and network anomaly detection.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion, Computer & Network Security, Certified, Certificate of Completion, Computer & Network Security, Certified at SANS Technology InstitutePh.D., Electronic Systems for Information Security, Ph.D., Electronic Systems for Information Security at Università degli Studi di GenovaUniversity of MilanLiceo Scientifico G. MarconiCertificate of Attendance, Information Security, Certificate of Attendance, Information Security at FOSAD, International School on Foundations of Security Analysis and DesignEC-ASP, Network Security, EC-ASP, Network Security at Elsag Datamat – EXCITE Security DepartmentCertification, Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence, Certification, Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence at ECCECIFI (Certified Information Forensics Investigator), Computer Forensics and Digital Investigations, CIFI (Certified Information Forensics Investigator), Computer Forensics and Digital Investigations at IISFA - International Information Systems Forensics Association
Italian, English
Github Skills (4)
text-parsing10
parsing10
python10
computer-forensics9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
log2timeline/plaso
Feb 2013 - Oct 2015
Super timeline all the things
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Francesco contributed to the `log2timeline/plaso` repository, which focuses on digital forensics and timeline analysis. Their work involved parsing and analyzing SELinux audit log files. This included implementing a parser for SELinux logs, writing tests for the parser, and refining the formatting of parsed data.
all-the-thingstimelineforensicsparsing
RealityNet/hotoloti
Nov 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 5 months
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