Giuseppe Paterno'

Solution Architect and Security Expert

Milan Area, Italy

Current
Past
  • Senior Network and Security architect at Sun Microsystems
  • Professor, Master of Information Security Management at CEFRIEL
  • Senior System Administrator at Infostrada
  • Senior Software Engineer at Lotus (IBM)
  • Architect, System Engineer, Customer Engineer at IBM Corporation
  • System Administrator at Datanord Multimedia

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Education
  • Università degli Studi di Milano
  • Istituto Leopardi
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Industry
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Giuseppe Paterno'’s Summary

Experienced architect on networking, security and Linux (wireless, application security, OS security,...). Great experience on investigating root causes of technical problems. Deep market knowledge. Multiplatform OS knowledge (Linux, Solaris, AIX, MacOS, Windows, AS/400, MVS). Excellent expert on networking standards and developing new ones. Interest in all computer issues, mainly in the above areas. Good attitude to research and development projects. Part of the opensource community (ILS, Sikurezza, IEEE,...). Cisco CCNP, Red Hat Certified Security Specialist (RHCSS) and other certifications. Currently writes articles, publications and books, most notably: "security in wireless LANs" and "single sign-on with kerberos and LDAP".
More on the website:
http://www.gpaterno.com/

Giuseppe Paterno'’s Specialties:

Networking, security, wireless, Voice over IP (VoIP), smartcards, single signon, linux, kernel issues, performance, Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), IPTV, Cisco. Special attitude to R&D projects.

Giuseppe Paterno'’s Experience

  • Visiting Researcher

    Trinity College Dublin

    (Educational Institution; Research industry)

    June 2009 — Present (6 months)

    Named visiting researcher on security and networking at the Centre for Telecommunication Value-Chain Research (CTVR).

  • Founder and contributor

    Security e-Book Project

    (Computer & Network Security industry)

    January 2009 — Present (11 months)

    I'm the founder of Security e-Book, a project aiming on creating a free publication on security architectures and implementations, using the concept behind wikipedia.

    The project is non-commercial and follows the Creative Commons license.

    The web site is: http://ebook.sikurezza.org/

  • Senior Architect

    RedHat

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHCE; Computer Software industry)

    March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

    - I'm a solution architect at Red Hat, helping customers on designing architectures based on Red Hat products: RedHat Enterprise Linux, Cluster Suite, GFS, Directory Server, Certificate System, JBoss.
    - I'm also EMEA Security Expert: in this role I am the EMEA central point for communicating with the engineering and the internal emergency response team (CERT).
    - From 2007, Red Hat Certified Security Specialits (RHCSS), first RHCSS in Europe
    - From 2007, trusted advisor Red Hat engineering on security/identity

  • Senior Network and Security architect

    Sun Microsystems

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer & Network Security industry)

    December 2000 — February 2006 (5 years 3 months)

    - Senior Network and Security Architect at the Client Solutions department. My objective is to design architecture implementations, to help project managers in implementing customers' offerings and to lead the delivery from a technical perspective.
    - Involvement in pilot/edge computing projects: Javaphones J2ME provisioning infastructure for a priemer European mobile operator. JavaAuto infrastructure for a premier automotive Italian manufacturer. Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) infrastructure reaseach.
    - I received Sun’s S.T.A.R.S. international award of excellence in 2002.
    - Delegated by the italian Chief Technology Officer (CTO) on networking, security and OpenSource issues, by suggesting the development of Sun’s offering, services and vision in these areas.

  • Professor, Master of Information Security Management

    CEFRIEL

    (Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2005 — September 2005 (1 month)

    Professor in wireless security at master of Information Security Management

  • Senior System Administrator

    Infostrada

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

    2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

    Senior System Administrator for the core Internet systems in the Network Operation Center (NOC).

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Lotus (IBM)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    1999 — 2000 (1 year )

    - Senior Software Engineer at the Lotus Software XPC European Product Development. Experienced cross platform specialist.
    - Analyse software defects as reported from the worldwide support centre and driving developers on the right solution.
    - I had to drive and help the team creating processes for the Quality Engineers and Localisation Engineers and cooperating with the international laboratories to enhance the products.
    - I created and maintained the Language Pack: this software was capable to modify the English Domino Server into a localized one and capable to run under all supported UNIX flavours, OS/400, OS/390 and Windows NT.
    -I was also part of the team of an important experimental project at the Dublin City University, in which we installed for the first time to a customer in Europe a personalized version of several Linux instances on a Mainframe (VM).
    - On April 2002 I was awarded for these efforts and for the performance and teamwork.

  • Architect, System Engineer, Customer Engineer

    IBM Corporation

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    1996 — 1999 (3 years )

    - AS/400 customer support specialist on networking and client server applications (Client Access). Domino and TCP/IP core specialist.
    - Webmaster for AS/400 and RS/6000 italian support center.
    - From 1998, System Engineer (IT Architect/Specialist) on Firewalls (platforms NT, UNIX, AS/400), Lotus Domino (on NT, UNIX, AS/400), mail systems and Networks (IP/SNA using Cisco and IBM routers) at Network Services/e-Business division.

  • System Administrator

    Datanord Multimedia

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    1995 — 1996 (1 year )

    System Administrator in Internet area. Datanord was one of the first company connected to Internet in Italy.

Additional Information

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Giuseppe Paterno'’s Interests:

computers, new technology, networking, security, wireless, aeronautics, radio amateur

Giuseppe Paterno'’s Groups:

IEEE, Italian Linux Society, IT-NIC (Italian Naming Authority), Sikurezza.org

  •    Sikurezza.org
  •    CentOS
  •    Ubuntu Users ( 10.000+ members ) Official Group
  •    Irish Linux Users Group
  •    Italian Security Professional
  •    Trinity College Dublin - Alumni and Friends
  •    Sun Microsystems
  •    RED Hat LINUX Experts
  •    CAcert Community
  •    Amateur Radio Enthusiast
  •    Comunicare Digitale
  •    Italian Hacker Culture
  •    Security e-Book

Giuseppe Paterno'’s Honors:

- Red Hat Fedora award for helping the colleagues, 2006
- Sun's STARS Award of excellence, 2002
- Lotus (IBM) best performance award, 2001
- Teached at the master of security in the university Politecnico of Milan (Politecnico di Milano presso CEFRIEL) in 2005

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