On June 24^th, 2021 at 10.00 am, Giovanni Vigna, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara and the CTO and co-founder of Lastline, Inc., will hold a seminar on "Understanding and Analyzing the Threat Landscape" in "E. Gatti" Conference Room and in live streaming on the WebEx Politecnico di Milano platform.

The threat landscape is in continuous evolution. Threat intelligence has always been seen as a collection of tools to provide basic indicators of compromise (IP addresses, hashes of malware components) to be used in incident prevention and response. However, recently, the scale and impact of cyberattacks have prompted a more systematic approach to the collection, analysis, and dissemination of threat intelligence. This push for a "science of threat intelligence" has many facets, and, in this talk, we will present our experience in both industry (as the CTO of Lastline and the Sr. Director of the Threat Intelligence group at VMware) and academia (as a professor at UCSB) with regards to the science and practice of threat intelligence.

Due to the Covid prevention restrictions, only a limited number of participants will be accepted in presence.

The registration form is available and required only for the presence in DEIB Conference Room at the following link

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Giovanni Vigna is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and the CTO and co-founder of Lastline, Inc., a company that provides anti-malware solutions. Lastline was acquired by VMware, Inc., in June 2020.
His research interests include malware analysis, vulnerability assessment, the underground economy, binary analysis, web security, and the applications of machine learning to security problems.
He has been the Program Chair of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2003), of the ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS 2009), of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2010-2011), and he is currently the co-chair of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2020-2021).
He is known for organizing and running, since 2003, a yearly Capture The Flag hacking contest, called iCTF, that every year involves dozens of teams around the world.
Giovanni Vigna is also the founder of the Shellphish hacking group, who has participated in more DEF CON CTF competitions than any other group in history.
Giovanni Vigna received his M.S. with honors and Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1994 and 1998, respectively.
He is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow.