Alessio Di Santo is a Cybersecurity Professional and Doctoral Candidate with a focus on cryptography and digital forensics. He holds both a Bachelor's Degree in Information Engineering and a Master's Degree in Computer and Automation Engineering from the Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, where his research concentrated on Cryptographic Fairness and Forensic Acquisition for IT/OT systems, respectively. Since 2020, Alessio has worked in the cybersecurity industry as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, Incident Responder, and Malware Analyst. He is currently completing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Dajana Cassioli (co-tutor Walter Tiberti) and working as a Senior Information Security Specialist at Deutsche Boerse.

Ben Stuart is an offensive security consultant based in Wiesbaden, Germany, and a Rustacean since 1.0, back when he was doing embedded and microcontroller work at university, long before it was a fashionable choice for offensive tooling. He holds the OSCE3 (OSCP, OSEP, OSWE, OSED) and runs his own company, Wisp Security GmbH, doing penetration testing and offensive security development.

Dajana Cassioli (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor of Telecommunications Engineering with the University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, where she served as the Elected Head for the Study Program in “Telecommunications Engineering: Advanced Technologies and Services” from 2021 to 2024. She co-authored more than 100 articles published in the most renowned international journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. She was a Summer Manager with the Wireless Systems Research Department, AT&T Laboratories-Research, NJ, USA, in 2000. She was a Short-Term Visiting Scholar with the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, hosted by Prof. Andy Molisch, in 2022. Her main research interests are in wireless communications, 5G/B5G networks and cybersecurity.
Dr. Cassioli is the Chair of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on “Propagation Channels for Next Generation Wireless Systems and Emerging Deployment Scenarios” and Chair of the SiG on Distributed and Massive MIMO of the IEEE P1944 Standard for Channel Models of Wireless Systems, both within the IEEE Communications Society. She also serves as the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Activity Coordinator of the IEEE Italy Section. She is the Past Chair of the IEEE WIE AG Italy Section from 2016 to 2022 and the IEEE VT06/COM19 Italy Chapter from 2011 to 2017. She served as the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc RCC SiG on Propagation Channels for 5G&B from 2021 to 2025. Since 2015, she is the Coordinator of the University of L’Aquila Node of the CINI National Laboratory of Cybersecurity, where she led the CyberEquality WG from 2020 to 2021. She has been awarded the ERC StG VISION (Video-oriented UWB-based Intelligent Ubiquitous Sensing) in 2010 and the ERC PoC Grant iCARE (MobIle health-Care system for monitoring toxicity and symptoms in Cancer patients Receiving Disease-Oriented Therapy) in 2016. She was the CEO in 2014–2018, and 2019 of the spin-off of the University of L’Aquila “Smartly: Natives of Smart Living srl,” which designs and markets advanced ICT solutions to improve the quality of life. She served as the Co-Chair for Globecom 2025 WC, ICC 2024 MWN, ICC 2023 CISS, PIMRC2018 Industry, RTSI WIE Chair in 2018, 2019, and 2020, MELECON2020 and MetroInd4.0, and the TPC member of several International Conferences, including ICC, PIMRC, VTC, and GLOBECOM. She participated in the definition of the standard channel model for the IEEE 802.15.4 standard in 2005. She is an Associate Editor of IET Electronic Letters, and an Executive Editor of WILEY INTERNET TECHNOLOGY LETTERS and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technology and served as an Associate Editor for IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS from 2018 to 2022.

Ethan Bowen is a Security Solutions Architect at NVISO, where he helps organizations solve complex SOC challenges. He brings more than 10 years of blue team experience across consulting, financial services, federal government, and technology sectors, with a focus on detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, and Microsoft security technologies.

Before joining NVISO, Ethan worked at Deutsche Bank, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Microsoft, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Ethan holds a Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity from Penn State University. He also holds multiple industry certifications, including GREM, GCFA, CISSP, and multiple Microsoft certifications. Outside of work, Ethan enjoys running and playing board games.

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Harris Nuhanović is a Red Team Operator on NVISO’s ARES team, specializing in physical intrusion testing and adversary emulation. He regularly conducts red team engagements involving physical security attack vectors, from lock picking, access control and door bypasses to badge cloning.

Jakob Steeg is a security consultant and penetration tester at usd AG with several years of experience in planning and executing penetration tests across web applications, APIs, cloud environments, Kubernetes, Windows/Active Directory, mobile platforms, and native/thick client applications. He specializes in the security assessment of desktop clients and proprietary or binary protocols, applying his strong software development background to build custom testing tools and analyze complex systems. His expertise includes cryptographic mechanisms, secure software development, public key infrastructures, and modern network architectures. Jakob holds a Master’s degree in IT Security from TU Darmstadt, is OSCP and OSWE certified, and has published multiple CVE-listed vulnerabilities.

Marius Genheimer is a DFIR Specialist and Threat Researcher with the SECUINFRA Falcon Team. He specializes in malware analysis and defensive security training.

Nico Leidecker leads NVISO's offensive security team. With more than 20 years of hands-on experience in security testing, red teaming, and adversarial simulation, he specializes in designing tailored engagements that help organizations assess and strengthen their resilience against targeted threats. His work combines realistic attacker emulation with practical insights into how organizations can improve their defensive posture. He and his team conduct multiple red team engagements each year, often including physical security attack vectors.

Tim Kranz is a managing consultant and penetration tester at usd AG.