Biography:Stefano Fratepietro

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Stefano Fratepietro is an Italian IT Security Expert also known as "hacker buono" and is the developer of the Deft Linux Distribution.

Stefano Fratepietro
Born
Stefano, Domenico Fratepietro

(1983-04-09)April 9, 1983
Cerignola, Italy
NationalityItalian
EducationUniversity of Bologna
Occupation
  • Cyber Security and Digital Forensics expert
  • Founder and CEO of Tesla Consulting, CSO Be Shaping the Future

Early life and education

Stefano Fratepietro, also known as "hacker buono", as he was called in an interview on the Italian newspaper Resto del Carlino,[1] was born in Cerignola (FG) and grew up in a lawyers family. He approached the computer world for the first time in 1989 when he discovered the Commodore 64. Since then the passion and the desire to learn more about the computer science has continued to increase day after day.

After the high-school in Cerignola, ITC Dante Alighieri – Programmer address, in 2001 he moved to the University of Bologna to study Management Informatics. He graduated in 2006 with a thesis on "Technological and legal profiles in Computer Forensics – A study on the Vierika case".

Career

In 2005 he developed the first version of DEFT Linux, a GNU/Linux Distribution live software distribution based on Ubuntu that in the following years has become one of the main distributions in Italy in the Computer Forensics and IT security fields, and it is used by the major law enforcement agencies around the world. In 2015 DEFT Linux, now in version 8.2, won the first stage of the Italian event Digital Champions[2]

From the 2012 he has started to appearing, firstly along with Paolo Dal Checco and now with Massimiliano Dal Cero, on the TV show "Le Iene" on the Italian TV channel Italia 1. During the show Fratepietro helps the announcer Matteo Viviani to inform people on how much dangerous can be the improper use of technologies.[3]

In 2012, after the victory of the "Incredibol" Award in the start-up category "Aspiranti Imprese",[4] he founded Tesla Consulting,[5] an Information Security and Digital Forensics consulting company based in Bologna that provides support for the investigation on cyber crimes. In 2013 the company was awarded with the Lamark Prize.[6] in 2019 the company was acquired by the Be Shaping the Future S.p.A. group, an Italian multinational listed on the Italian stock exchange in the STAR segment.[7]

According with the CIRSFID website[8] and the personal Linkedin profile,[9] Fratepietro start his research activity in Digital Forensics for the Faculty of Law (University of Bologna) at the end of 2005. In 2013 Fratepietro becomes professor for the Master in Digital Forensics and Cyber Defence organized by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia at the STELMILIT, the military school of Telecommunications in Chiavari (STELMILIT). From 2016 he is also professor for:

  • CINEAS[10] course "Risk online engineering and management"
  • the specialization course in "Privacy Officer and Cyber Security"[11] at University of Bologna
  • for the specialization course in "Cyber Security and Digital Forensics" at the Cyber Academy - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.[12]

He has participated as an cyber security expert for many Italian television programs. Some of these collaborations are:

Awards and achievements

  • Incredibol 2012[13]
  • Lamarck 2013 – Unindustria Bologna[14]
  • Winner Digital Champions 2015[15][16]

Security Consulting

  • Buongiorno! Vitaminic (2005)
  • Telecom-Sismi (2006)
  • Illegal Slot Machine (2009)
  • Isoldi's Case (2011)
  • Cgil Piacenza (2012)
  • Paola Landini (2013)
  • TAV (2013)
  • BER BANK (2013)
  • Expo 2015 (2014)
  • Flaw of PCT/PEC (2015)
  • Aemilia
  • Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. for "Volkswagen Dieselgate" (2015)

Notes

  1. ↑ Fratepietro, l’hacker buono che lavora per Nasa e Fbi
  2. ↑ DEFT Linux si aggiudica la prima tappa del Digital Championship
  3. ↑ Servizi per Le Iene
  4. ↑ Vincitori Incredibol – L'Innovazione Creativa di Bologna
  5. ↑ Tesla Consulting Official Site
  6. ↑ TESLA CONSULTING TRA I VINCITORI DEL PREMIO LAMARCK
  7. ↑ Be, achieving the leadership in the Cyber Security: the acquisition of Tesla Consulting
  8. ↑ CIRSFID website
  9. ↑ Linkedin profile
  10. ↑ Stefano Fratepietro Docente CINEAS
  11. ↑ Unibo - Data Protection e Privacy Officer course web page
  12. ↑ Docenti Corso Cyber Security
  13. ↑ Vincitori Incredibol – L'Innovazione Creativa di Bologna
  14. ↑ TESLA CONSULTING TRA I VINCITORI DEL PREMIO LAMARCK
  15. ↑ Il programma open source che trova i file cancellati su pc e cellulare
  16. ↑ DEFT Linux si aggiudica la prima tappa del Digital Championship




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