About the Technical Reviewer

Massimo Nardone holds an MSc in computing science from the University of Salerno, Italy. He currently works as a PCI QSA and senior lead IT security/Cloud architect for IBM Finland, where his main responsibilities include Cloud, IT infrastructure, and security auditing/assessment. At IBM Finland Massimo is also the Finnish Invention Development Team Leader (FIDTL). His IT certifications include ITIL, Open Group Master Certified IT Architect, and Payment Card Industry (PCI) Qualified Security Assessor (QSA). He is a private, public, and desktop Cloud architecture expert.

With more than 19 years of experience in Cloud computing, IT infrastructure, mobile, security, and WWW technology areas for both national and international projects, Massimo has been a project manager, software engineer, research engineer, chief security architect, and software specialist. He was also a visiting lecturer and supervisor for exercises at the Networking Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology (Helsinki University of Technology TKK became a part of Aalto University).

Massimo is very familiar with security communication protocols testing tools and methodologies and has been developing Internet and mobile applications with evolving technologies and using many programming languages.

Massimo has been the technical reviewer for many book publishers in IT areas such as security, www-technology, database, and so on. Massimo holds four International Patents (PKI, SIP, SAML, and Proxy areas).

He dedicates this book to his beloved wife Pia and his children, Luna, Leo, and Neve.