Matteo Cantoni
Senior Cyber Security Specialist at Telecom Italia
Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMatteo Cantoni is a Senior Cyber Security Specialist with over 12 years of hands-on experience in incident response, digital forensics, SIEM implementation and enterprise incident handling at Telecom Italia. An OpenBSD enthusiast and long-time practitioner since the dial-up BBS era, he combines offensive security skills—contributing modules to the well-known Metasploit Framework—with practical defensive work such as honeypot deployment, malware collection, DDoS mitigation and system hardening across Win/Linux/BSD. He has built and managed low-bandwidth DNS and other protocol honeypots, authored the widely used snmpcheck tool, and regularly participates in CTFs and open-source projects to stay sharp. Comfortable both as a consultant/trainer and as an operational lead, he bridges deep technical expertise with a pragmatic, time-efficient approach to protecting large-scale environments.
12 years of coding experience
Telecommunication, Networking, Multimedia, Electronic & Telecommunication, Telecommunication, Networking, Multimedia, Electronic & Telecommunication at ITIS Galvani Milano
English
Github Skills (14)
audit-trail10
audit10
sql-injection10
exploit10
http10
vulnerabilities10
auditing10
code-auditing10
audit-logging10
vulnerability10
metasploit10
php9
wordpress9
python5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Nov 2013 - Oct 2019
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:24 commits, 10 PRs, 1 comment in 6 years
Contributions summary:Matteo contributed to the Metasploit Framework by implementing and updating security testing modules. Their work involved adding a SQL injection module for a WordPress plugin and updating auxiliary modules for open proxy detection and host header injection. They also added a module to exploit a phpMyAdmin vulnerability, demonstrating expertise in identifying and exploiting security flaws.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
mcantoni/snmpcheck
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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