Success Stories - Giovanni Vigna

Charismatic lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), great surf enthusiast and founder of Lastline, a company specialized in malware analysis that has recently joined VMware, Giovanni Vigna graduated in 1994 in Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, where he then obtained a PhD in Information Technology.
After moving to the United States as a post-doc in the late 90s, he quickly started a brilliant academic career which also led to a successful entrepreneurial venture.
Today Giovanni is a recognized authority in the world of computer security, where he is particularly known as the organizer and promoter of the iCTF hacking contest, a competition that every year involves dozens of academic institutions around the world.