STEFANO ZATTI

Stefano Zatti is the co-teacher of the course on Risk Management within the Master program in Cybersecurity at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He has previously taught since 2005 a graduate course at La Sapienza on “Corporate Security Policies”.

He is retired from ESA, the European Space Agency, where he has been the Head of the Security Office, based in Frascati, responsible for the policy definition and control of the implementation of all aspects of security in the Agency. He has worked for ESA since 1993, covering roles related to the design and operations of the information systems and the communication networks of the Agency and then focussing on the security thereof. In 2002, he founded the ESACERT. He worked before for the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, where he took part in projects on internetworking, secure authentication and key distribution (KryptoKnight), and security management (Samson), and at the University of California at Berkeley, where he worked on distributed systems (clock synchronization – the TEMPO project, that was transferred into Berkeley Unix 4.2, and load balancing) during the glorious times of Berkeley Unix. He holds a Laurea in Mathematics cum laude from the University of Pavia, Italy and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He is co-author, with the neuro-surgeon dr. Paolo Gaetani, of the cyber-medical thriller "Il Nodo di Salomone".