Raffaele Forte
CEO & Founder at BackBox Linux
Italy
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Top SchoolRaffaele Forte is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience in offensive security and Linux systems, best known as the founder and core developer of BackBox Linux. He has led and scaled offensive security delivery teams, managed complex pen-testing engagements across Automotive, Mobile, Web and IoT domains, and advised Fortune Global 100 clients on reducing critical risk. As CEO and Co‑founder of xfensive and former Head of Offensive Security, he blends strategic leadership with deep technical craft—reverse engineering, exploitation, and hardened Debian-based tooling. Raffaele’s work spans long-term embedded/Linux development and open-source tool creation, reflecting a rare combination of product-building and red-team pragmatism. An experienced conference speaker, he routinely shares novel attack techniques and defensive lessons learned, and his career shows a pattern of translating research-grade findings into operational improvements for major industrial and automotive customers.
13 years of coding experience
Ingegneria Informatica, Ingegneria Informatica at Università della Calabria
Italian, English
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Github Skills (35)
social-engineering10
phishing10
access-point10
social-network-analysis10
kali-linux10
wifi10
unix9
python9
linux9
malware9
tor8
security8
glpi8
privilege-escalation8
data-center7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raffaele-forte/backbox-anonymous
Mar 2014 - Dec 2015
Transparently Routing Traffic Through Tor
Contributions:1 review, 20 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
tor
raffaele-forte/climber
Jun 2013 - Mar 2016
Check UNIX/Linux systems for privilege escalation
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 10 months
linuxprivilege-escalationunix
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