Security Researcher

Alessandro Ravizzotti

I am a security researcher at Fraunhofer SIT, in the Secure Software Engineering (SSE) department. (More on my research here soon.)

Previously, I worked as a Research Associate in Cyber Security at NEC Laboratories Europe, where I analysed complex attack scenarios and contributed to proof-of-concept defences in the context of secure machine learning.

I hold an MSc with Distinction in Advanced Security & Digital Forensics from Edinburgh Napier University (NCSC certified). My dissertation focused on ""Behavioural Analysis of Current Evolution Ransomware Attack Exfiltration Methods"", and I was selected as a Teaching Assistant for the MSc Penetration Testing module. I earned my BSc in Computer Science from the University of Milan and represented my university in the CyberChallenge.IT, Italy's national cybersecurity training programme for undergraduates.

My main interests include penetration testing, web security, digital forensics, and post-quantum cryptography, with a strong emphasis on applied security and hands-on experimentation. In my free time, I participate in CTFs and attack-and-defence challenges, and bug bounty research, developing small tools and scripts in Python, JavaScript and C to explore security problems in practice.

I'm always happy to connect with others working in offensive security, defensive security, or applied cybersecurity research.