Simone Asnaghi

Simone Asnaghi

Network and IT Security Consultant / Ph.D. in Systems' Engineering / MD in Telecommunication Engineering

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Professional Profile

I'm a Cyber Security professional, with more than 17 years working experience in Finance companies, Public Sector, International Energy Operators and National Telcos.

Currently working as Head of Forensic Investigation in a Primary International Bank, I've dealed with several international IT projects as Project Manager and Technical expert.

My experience spans through both technological and procedural aspects of IT and Security, going from Digital Security investigation to the definition of security compliant processes, passing by scouting and testing of security platforms.

I earned a wider vision of scientific landscape during my PhD period, together with the willingness to use innovative solutions. I enjoy work as independently as in team, expanding and sharing my knowledge and my profile is completed by good analytical and organizational skills.


Professional Experience

Forensic Investigation: design and implementation of Forensic procedures, management of requests by internal units and external Legal Authorities.

Project Management: Operating coordination of projects related to severe areas (software development, risk management, process building, platform integration), budget definition, interaction with business clients. Definition and management of project schedule. Creation and optimization of business processes.

DDoS Protection: Design and Project Management of network monitoring and DDoS protection platforms (Carrier Class level and Enterprise level).

Enterprise Mobility Management: Definition of Mobility Management strategy (BYOD, COPE, MAM), design of processes and procedures, Technical Support, Project Management.

Test Management: test design and management for IT and network platforms.

Security Governance and Compliance: development of security policies and procedures, according to ISO 27K, PCI-DSS standards and Privacy regulation; optimization/development Critical Infrastructure Incident Handling procedures; Design of Security KPI framework for Enterprise and Telco customers, development of Business Intelligence systems.

Integration Management: integration management of IT and Network Security system with SIEM, log management, Identity and Access management platform.


Technical Skills

Digital Investigation (eDiscovery, Computer Forensic, Log Analysis, analysis and presentation of structured and unstructured data).

Analysis and mitigation of traffic anomalies, Networking strategies (device configuration, routing strategy design, network emulation).

Enterprise Mobility Management: integration and administration of EMM platform (MobileIron, Good, Dymora).

Business Intelligence: dashboards development and integration with external data sources.

Administration of Linux and Microsoft systems, use of VMWare Workstation.

SIEM: Integration of IT and Network system, definition of requirement, data flows and log processing logic.

Web development: HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery.

Programming: Java, shell scripting, Perl, Python, C/C++, Matlab.


Education

CISSP, (ISC)2, 2022

PhD in Systems' Engineering, University "Sapienza", Rome, Italy, 2010

Master Degree in Telecommunication Engineering, University "Sapienza", Rome, Italy, 2006


Languages

Italian: Mother tongue

English: Good knowledge, both professional and spare time - EU lev. B2