Guido Bolognesi
Curriculum Vitæ

Personal Data

• [Mobile] +39-340-626-3087
• [e-mail] guido@kill-9.it
• [Place and date of birth] Bologna, Italy - November, 4th 1974

Professional Experiences

Vodafone Italia

Milan, since July 2004
Network Security Consultant -- South Europe Data Center

I.NET S.p.A.

Milan, September 01-June 04
Network Security Manager -- Operations

• ``ethical hacking'', for penetration tests and vulnerability assessments
• Forensic analysis of compromised machines
• Cisco PIX and routers configuration, Nokia/IPSO and CheckPoint Firewall-1 setup, ISS RealSecure
• Solaris, Linux, AIX hardening
• Customer assistance regarding networks and systems security

I.NET S.p.A.

Milan, March 01-August 01
Webfarm Manager -- Operations

• Resource planning and customers assistance regarding housing service
• Planning and setup of network architectures for housing service

Cable&Wireless -- dSNet

Bologna, September 98-February 01
Systems Head, Unix Environment

• Systems administration for both Internet and internal services (Tru64 Unix, Solaris, GNU/Linux)
• Routers configuration, ISDN/Frame-Relay/Leased lines maintenance, both customers' and infrastructure
• Planning and implementation of new technical solutions, with a strong accent on service quality, continuity and security

CORE S.r.l.

Bologna, September 97-September 98
Network and systems administrator

• IBM RS/6000, Digital Alpha e Wintel systems administration for GIS developers' area [ArcView, GeoMax, Informix/Oracle].
• Lotus Notes development support, for information mining software
• Network administration (Token Ring, Ethernet)

Teaching and Events

Sometimes I give speeches, in public events or as a teacher:

• ``UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access): infrastructure and security''
  Infosecurity 2007, Fiera Milano
• ``Security 101 - an introduction to computer security''
  Bologna University, Master in Tecnologia del Software Libero e Open Source, July 2005
• ``Run Secure || die() - Separation between host and services.''
  Webb.it 2004, Fiera di Padova / Fiera di Milano
• ``NetBsd e retrocomputing - Hardware Revival''
  Webb.it 2003, Fiera di Padova
• ``Security on the air: 802.11''
  Network Security Forum 2003, Milano. Organized by ``Istituto di Ricerca Internazionale''
• ``Free & Secure, an overview of modern security features in Open Source operating systems.''
  Operating Systems Week 2003, Bologna University, Computer Science Faculty
• ``Am I paranoid enough? Security: illusion or risk management?''
  Linux Meeting 2002 - Bologna University, Engineering Faculty / Free Software Meeting 2002, Milan
• ``Scusa, ti ho bucato per sbaglio - Wireless [in]security''
  Webb.it 2002, Fiera di Padova

Studies

• 1993 - Bologna - Liceo ``A. Righi'' - Maturità scientifica (sperimentazione di Matematica ed Informatica), votazione 54/60.
• Three years at the Electronic Engineering Faculty, Bologna University, and collaboration with Faculty Computer Center for computer security analysis (mostly SunOS and Hp-Ux) and services (passwords, TCP/IP, NFS, web and email)
• At the moment I'm attending the Computer Science Faculty at the Bologna University

Courses taken

• CRLS (Cisco Routing and Lan Switching), October 1998 Milan
• BSCN (Building Scalable Cisco Networks), July 2001 Milan
• ICND (Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices), January 2002 Milan
• BCMSN (Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks), April 2002 Milan
• BCRAN (Building Cisco Remote Access Networks), July 2002 Milan
• CIT (Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting), September 2002 Milan
  

• IBM AX025 (High Availability with HACMP on AIX), June 2001 Novedrate
• Vigilante SecureScan, October 2001 Paris
• CheckPoint Firewall-1, May 2002 Milan

Certifications

• June 7th 2002 - CCNA
• April 17th 2003 - CCNP

Other Skills

Fluent English, in technical and everyday use.

Systems/Hardware

Installed/replaced hardware on Sun, Digital, IBM, Hp, Silicon Graphics machines: CPUs, memory, disks, network cards, RAID arrays, tape libraries.
Everyday experience on PCs.

Systems/Software

Solid knowledge of UNIX based systems, experience since 1995 on various platforms [Digital Unix/Tru64, Linux Debian/RedHat, Solaris, IRIX, NetBSD, FreeBSD, AIX, Hp-Ux, IPSO, SecurePlatform].
Good knowledge of shell and Perl programming, PHP, knowledge of C, HTML, SQL. Partial knowledge of Java, Pascal.
Desktop operating systems usage: Windows, MacOS X, [DOS, Os/2, BeOS].

Network/Hardware

Wired/wireless Ethernet network cards, switches, transceivers, repeaters, hubs and bridges.
Token Ring network cards and MAUs. Nokia, Pairgain and RAD HDSL modems.
Cisco routers [2500 to 12000, AS5300], Catalyst switches [2950 to 6500], Cisco PIX [515-535], VPN3000, 1100/1200 access points, Firewall-1 on Nokia platform ranging from IP330 to IP2250.
Got in touch with 3Com, HP, IBM, Extreme Networks, Huawei switches; Juniper, Zyxel, NetGear routers; NetScreen firewalls; RadWare, Alteon balancers; Packeteer traffic shapers; BlueCoat caches.

Network/Software

Hands-on experience in configuration and maintenance of network services:

• email [Sendmail, QMail, Postfix]
• web [Apache, Netscape]
• DNS [bind v4/9]
• authentication [TACACS+, Radius (radiator, SteelBelted, freeradius)]
• infrastructure [SMB, LDAP]

 

even in limited environments (chroot, jail, VmWare).
Did set up network monitoring [mon, netsaint, MRTG, HP OpenView] and security [tcp-wrappers, Firewall-1/Provider-1, NetForensics, Vigilante SecureScan, ISS RealSecure, CoreST CORE Impact] software.
Day to day use of network security tools [nessus, nmap, john, logcheck, tripwire, samhain ...] and troubleshooting tools [tcpdump, snort, iptraf, sniffit, ethereal].
Good knowledge of Cisco IOS up to v12, Cisco VPN Client and CatOS.
Set up and automated backup software.
Spot experience on databases [Oracle8 e 9i, MySQL].

Network/Protocols

IPv4, IPv6. SMTP, HTTP/S, POP3/S, IMAP/S, FTP, LDAP, SNMP, with RFC study when needed.
Other protocols: STP/PVST+, CDP, HSRP/VRRP, OSPF, BGP4, IPSec, GRE. H.323, SIP