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I'm Samuele Padula.

Computer Engineer Cyber Security Specialist Mountain Lover

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About me
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As you can see my site reflects my IT nature, "backendist" & minimalist.
I love security, networking, and everything the end user does not see.
But I find very boring to try to describe myself with an 'About me'.
Write me and let's talk. Maybe with a 🍺

Info

  • Name and Surname: Samuele Padula
  • Birth year: 1997
  • Email: job@samuelepadula.it
  • Favourite quote:

    A bad day in the mountains is always better than a good day in the city.

Hard Skills

  • IT Administration
  • Cloud (Azure)
  • Powershell/Bash
  • Offensive Security
  • IoT hardware and software
  • Web & Script Development

Soft Skills

🌐 Ability to operate remotely and cooperate with players located in different areas of the world
🙏 Communication and teamwork aptitude thanks to theater training of 10 years at the theater school "La Maschera"
💪 Proactivity and ability to work for goals
💡 Curiosity and striving for continuous improvement
🧐 Strong problem-solving orientation

💻 Working Experience

Deloitte NextHub S.r.l – Bari/Remote

CyberSecurity Consultant - Red Team Operator

April 2024 - Current

  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Perform Web Application and Infrastructure Penetration Tests in a black/gray-box approach
  • Golden Image Security Assessment
  • Active Directory security posture testing
  • Contribution to the development and improvement of security testing methodologies, tools and processes in client’s companies.

Innovery s.p.a – Potenza

Security Operation Center Analyst - Managed Detection and Response

September 2023 - January 2024

  • Incident analysis using SIEMs such as IBM QRadar, Azure Sentinel, Crowdstrike and Splunk
  • Analysis of phishing attacks via the Email protection solution of Proofpoint Email

iCubed s.r.l – Melfi (PZ)/Milano/Remote

ICT Consultant - Cloud & Security

May 2021 - April 2023

  • Azure Network Security project for a major European player in the steel industry: design of Azure Networking, refactoring of Active Directory environment, configuration of Azure AD Connect
  • Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Apps, Identities and IoT
  • ADDS/AAD administration
  • Automatic analysis of file server share ACLs using Powershell
  • Security assessments of Azure Tenants/Subscriptions
  • Migration to Cloud of on-premises infrastructures
  • Design, management and maintenance of cloud and on-premises infrastructure for a leading European energy company
  • Azure IaaS deployment
  • Azure IoT management and deployment with ARM templates/Powershell
  • MSSQL Server
  • Cost and resource management
  • Azure Kubernetes Service and migration from RedHat OpenShift (AKS over HCI), Azure Container Registry, RabbitMQ

LantechLongwave s.p.a – Padova

Junior Network Engineer

January 2021 - May 2021

  • Operator of a Network Operation Center to support public and private companies
  • Maintenance and management of routers, switches, access points (Cisco, Aruba, HP, PaloAlto, Fortinet)
  • Network analysis and backup
  • Documentation and reporting
  • Configuration and maintenance of Icinga, Neteye and NeDi monitoring tools for the new NOC Platform
  • Data integration and analysis via InfluxDB and Grafana
  • Unix/Linux Systems administration (CentOS, RedHat Enterprise)

Servizidoc s.r.l.s – Potenza

IT Consultant

January 2016 - January 2018

  • IT operations and support
  • Network mainteinance and Hardware and software support

🎓 Education

Innovery Academy Basilicata – Potenza

Read the course program here!

May 2023 - September 2023

Università di Pisa – Pisa

First-level Master in Cybersecurity

February 2023 - February 2024

CFU achieved: 60
Thesis: DEMIoT, a secure microservices IoT environment
Modules details:

  • Python Course
  • Data mining
  • Networking
  • Web technology
  • Applied cryptography
  • Network Securiy and Ethical hacking
  • Operating Systems Security
  • Digital Forensics
  • Cyber Intelligence
  • Complex network analysis
  • Regulations on general data protection,GDPR and cybersecurity
  • Java Fundamentals Course
  • LAB Secure System Configuration
  • LAB on DNS,DNSSEC
  • LAB on Secure Tool
  • Mobile and Cloud security

Università di Pisa – Pisa

Master’s Degree in Computer Security LM-66 (Interrupted)

November 2021 - September 2022

CFU achieved: 30/120
Exams obtained: 3/12
Exams details:

  1. Data and system security:
    • elements of computer security (threats, attacks, security requirements and defense strategies)
    • elements of authentication and access control
    • security in databases and datacenter
    • attacks (malware, buffer overflow, denial of service,...)
    • operative systems security (virtualization, case studies Linux, Windows, Android)
    • security in mobile and cyber-physical systems
    • aspects of management of computer security
  2. Language-based technology for security:
    • Memory corruption flaws: buffer overflow, stack overflow, code injection
    • Language-based Security: Java stack inspection and access control, certified compilation, typed assembler languace, code obfuscation
    • Language-based Security Lab
    • Information flow security: integrity, confidentiality, hidden channels. Type-based information flow
    • Information flow security Lab: JSflow
    • Security in Web Application
    • Formal methods for Security: type systems and static analysis
    • Formal Method for security Lab
  3. Systems and Languages for Informatics:
    • Introduction to principles of programming languages
    • Introduction to problem solving
    • Introduction to program complexity
    • Constructs, functions, data structures and pointers in C
    • Posix library and PThread
    • Computer Organization. Interrupt Mechanism. Assembly Language. Operating System Organization. Processes and Process Management. Memory Management, Virtual Memory. I/O Management. File System. Databases. DBMS. SQL Language.
    • Point-to Point links. PPP Protocol. Local Area Networks (LANs). Ethernet. Switched Networks. Virtual LANs. Internet. IP Protocol, IP Addresses, Datagram Forwarding. Transport Protocols (UDP, TCP). Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing.
    • Socket-based Interface. Client/Server and P2P Applications

eForhum Milano – Vicenza

Cisco Networking Academy - CCNAv7

October 2020 - November 2020

CCNA 200- 301 Talent certification path offered by Lantech Longwave s.p.a

Università degli studi di Ferrara – Ferrara

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Electronic Engineering L-8 (Web systems)

September 2017 - September 2020

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