Summary
Gianluca Tiepolo is a seasoned Cyber Threat Intelligence specialist with over a decade of hands-on experience translating adversary tradecraft into operational detection for telecommunications and national security clients. He has built and led large CTI and threat-hunting teams at BAE Systems and Accenture, and currently drives CTI research and real-time adversary tracking at TIM, including a custom system to monitor pro‑Russian DDoS-as-a-service activity. His background spans product security at Adobe, a successful fintech exit as a co‑founder/CTO, and deep technical work in incident response, forensics, and detection engineering. Gianluca routinely converts strategic intelligence into Sigma rules, hunt hypotheses and emulation plans that SOCs can action, and his research has informed ENISA, national CERTs and EUROPOL policy. He holds an MSc in Information Security and an applied degree in digital investigations, and is the author of multiple practical cybersecurity books, most recently a 2026 guide on advanced CTI and hunting. Colleagues value him for blending startup pragmatism with national‑scale threat analysis and an appetite for turning complex telemetry into usable defensive outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of London