Dr.-Ing. Alessandro Guarino is a senior Information Security professional and independent researcher. He is the founder and principal consultant of StudioAG, a consultancy firm based in Italy and active since 2000, serving clients both in the private and public sector and providing cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection consulting services.
He is also a digital forensics analyst and consultant, as well as expert witness in Court and holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and a B.Sc. in economics, with a focus on Information Security Economics.
He is an ISO active expert in JTC 1/SC 27 (IT Security Techniques committee) and contributed in particular to the development of cybersecurity and digital investigation standards and represents Italy in the CEN-CENELEC Cybersecurity Focus Group and ETSI TC CYBER. Furthermore, he currently serves as the chair of CEN-CENELEC TC 8 “Privacy management in products and services”.
As an independent researcher, he delivered presentations at international conferences, including ISSE (since 2013), the NATO CCD COE Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon), and the EU-ASEAN CIO Forum.