Pasquale Stirparo
Founder & CEO at RationalEdge
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolPasquale Stirparo is a founder and CEO with 11+ years specializing in DFIR, malware analysis and threat intelligence, now building RationalEdge to deliver more contextual, accurate intelligence on malware. His career spans hands-on incident response and forensics at financial and enterprise organizations (UBS, Swiss Re, Google) and leadership roles in threat hunting at Dragos. He helped shape the international standard ISO/IEC 27037 and coordinated its working group for Italy, blending technical depth with standards-level influence. An experienced instructor and author—co-organizer of PIVOTcon and BSides Zurich and co-author of the award-winning Learning iOS Forensics—he bridges research, teaching and operational security. He also served as a research associate at Oxford and advised Europol’s EC3, reflecting rare cross-sector credibility. Known for turning deep technical analysis into actionable intelligence, he combines academic rigor (PhD work) with startup drive.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Degree Computer Engineering, Master Degree Computer Engineering at Politecnico di TorinoSANS Institute, SANS Institute at 8x SANS DFIR and CTI TrainingsDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information and Communication System Security, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information and Communication System Security at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyUniversity of MilanState Sponsored Cyber Threat Actors Summer Program, State Sponsored Cyber Threat Actors Summer Program at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Github Skills (30)
artifact10
data-export10
security10
parsing10
cybersecurity9
delta8
threat-hunting8
threat-intelligence8
information-security8
fraud-detection8
information-sharing8
fraud-prevention8
infosec8
taxonomy8
data-files7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pstirparo/mac4n6
Aug 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
pstirparo/artifacts
Aug 2015 - Feb 2019
ForensicArtifacts.com Artifact Repository
Contributions:20 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
forensicartifactssarifkebab-casevcentersecurity
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