User:Andrea.rigoni

Name
Rigoni Andrea

Title
Head of Critical Infrastructure Protection

Employer and Occupation
Symantec UK

EMEA Strategic Team

Expertise
Information Risk Analysis and Management;

Security Analysis and Intelligence;

Computer Emergency Response Teams;

Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP);

Information Sharing and Alerting Systems.

Experience
Andrea Rigoni has been working in the IT Security Arena for more than 16 years. Andrea works for Symantec UK in the EMEA Strategic Team and he provides independent consultancy to National Governments, European Institutions, NATO and European Critical Infrastructures. Andrea is the responsible of European Institutions and Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Andrea is an Expert about Critical Infrastructure Protection, in particular ICT Security. He is also a subject matter expert on Incident Management and CERTs. He is member of different expert groups and he speaks often at international conferences and European Events. He is responsible of two EU Funded Projects for the Protection of the European Critical Infrastructures.

In 2003 he joint Symantec as Services Business Development Manager for Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa and he was in charge of developing complex projects in particular in Italy, Spain and Middle East. Andrea helped Symantec to become the Security Thought Leader for the Italian Public Sector, leading a long list of successful projects both with the Government and Critical Infrastructures.

He began his activity in 1992 as an IT consultant to OFM, an NGO represented at the United Nations, working in Italy and US. In 1995 he started a company that has been among the firsts to develop the concept of Security as a Service. In 2000 he entered Getronics where he became responsible of the Security Business Development and later responsible of the Italia Mission Critical Organization. He led many large Security Projects, both for Government and for Private Companies.

Publications
Marco Strano, Bruno Fiammella, Massimo Boccardi, Andrea Rigoni – Inside Attack: detection techniques and prevention strategies – 2006 Nuovo Studio Tecna

Various Authors – “Network Security – from risk analysis to mitigation strategies” – 2005 ISCOM/ Italian Ministry of Communications and distributed by ENISA

Various Authors – “The protection of National Critical Infrastructures” – 2005 ISCOM/Italian Ministry of Communications

Various Authors – “The Security of IT Services” – 2006 ISCOM/Italian Ministry of Communications

Various Authors – “Managing IT Incidents” – 2006 ISCOM/Italian Ministry of Communications

Various Authors – “Incident Response” – 2006 Information Security Forum

Critical Infrastructure Blog: http://criticalinfrastructure.blogspot.com

Public Speaking
UCTE Annual Meeting - 27th of September 2007 - "New ICT Threats to Energy Transmission Operators"

European Parliament - 27th of May 2008 - "Impact of major incidents and attacks on end users and their role on CIP"

WARP National Conference - 3rd of June 2008 - "Security Intelligence through Information Sharing and Alerting"

FIRST Annual Conference - 27th of June 2008 - "Models and Experiences for National and International Information Sharing"

Memberships
Board of Directors of the AIIC (Italian Association of Critical Infrastructures Experts)

Scientific Committee of Italian Police

European Defence Agency non-governmental expert group

ESRIF ICT Security Working Group

CIGRE D2.22 ICT Security Working Group

Business Address
London Office: Symantec UK 62 Cornhill London EC3V 3NH United Kingdom

Brussels Office: Symantec 6 Rond Point Schuman 1040 Brussels Belgium