Role
Security Managing Director at Accenture Italy
Bio
After graduating in Computer Engineering from the Federico II University of Naples in 2005, she continued her studies, obtaining a PhD in Computer and Control Engineering from the same university in 2008. In 2007, she was a Visiting Researcher at the CSR of London City University, where she specialized in reliability growth algorithms and models . She joined Selex Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica company, where she continued her research on highly critical software systems , applying methodologies and results to air traffic control, naval traffic control, and coastal control systems. Here, she led industrial research projects within European and national programs, as well as dependability assessment and improvement activities for industrial solutions. In 2014, she began specializing in machine learning-based methodologies and approaches for reducing defects in software systems and increasing productivity. She was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Coimbra in the Marie Skłodowska Curie program for reliability assessment of critical OTS software systems.
In 2016, he became Cloud Advisory Manager at Accenture , where he focused on transformation and migration to cloud systems, with particular attention to cybersecurity aspects . In May 2017, he earned an MBA from Bologna Business School . He continued his career at Accenture , eventually reaching his current position as Security Managing Director .
During his professional career, he has coordinated two European projects for the development of innovative software systems for the supervision of air traffic control systems and airports, and a national project (for the development of innovative methodologies and techniques for the verification and validation of software systems in near real time. Since 2013, he has collaborated with the EC as an external expert. In 2014, he created a framework for measuring software defects based on static code analysis aimed at predicting software failures . Since 2017, he has been part of Cloud Security Alliance Italy .