MASSIMO NARDONE was born under Mount Vesuvius and holds a master's degree in computing science from the University of Salerno, Italy. He works currently as IT security and infrastructure architect, security consultant, and Finnish invention development team leader (FIDTL) for IBM Finland. His main security responsibilities include IT infrastructure, security auditing and assessment, PKI/WPKI, secure tunneling, LDAP security, and SmartCard security.

With more then 13 years of work experience in mobile, security, and web technologies for both national and international projects, he's worked as a project manager, software engineer, research engineer, chief security architect, and software specialist. He's also worked as a visiting lecturer and supervisor for exercises at the Networking Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) for a course on security of communication protocols.

He also works as a security application auditing expert to check on new application vulnerabilities using security standards such as ISO 17799 and ISO 27001 (formal BS7799:2).

He has researched, designed, and implemented security methodologies for different areas such as Standard BS7799, PKI and WPKI, Security Java (JAAS, JSSE, JCE), BEA Web logic Security, J2EE Security, LDAP Security, SSO, Apache Security, MS SQL Server Security, XML Security, SmartCard Security, and so on. He currently holds four International patents (in PKI, SIP, SAML, and proxy areas).