Paolo Maccarrone is an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano and the Director of the Cybersecurity & Data Security Observatory at the Department of Management Engineering. He is also a member of the core Faculty of the MIP Graduate School of Business, where he teaches on topics related to Management Accounting and Control, Sustainability Strategy and Information Security Management. His research interests mainly concern management control and corporate performance measurement and management systems in for-profit companies, the integration of sustainability strategy within corporate strategy and the governance and economics of information security. He is the author of numerous publications in books and scientific journals of national and international circulation.

Graduated with honors in mathematics in 1993, he has over 25 years of experience in the ICT sector. From 1993 to 2000 he worked for several Italian and international companies. In 2000 he joined the Consulting division of HP, where he held different leadership roles, until the establishment of the IT Security Practice, which he led until 2009. In 2009 he joined RSA as EMEA South Director of the Professional Service division. In December 2012 together with BIP – one of the fastest growing consultancies in Europe –  he founded CyberSec Partners, a subsidiary of BIP focused on Cyber Security & Compliance services. In 2016 CyberSec Partners was incorporated into Bip and Claudio became an Equity Partner at Bip. Today, CyberSec is a Center of Excellence within Bip, composed of a team of 200+ professionals involved in international projects for various customers in different market sectors: Financial Services, Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing, Telco, Media & Entertainment.

Having graduated with honours in Information Technology in 1986, he worked for many years as an Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Enel, also holding the AI course at Brescia University. In 1999 he joined Sorgenia during the energy company’s start-up phase and helped it grow to reach a €2bn turnover and 500,000 customers. Here, he held the role of Group CIO until 2009 and then founded and managed the Distributed Generation Business Unit. Since 2014 he has been working as a Partner at Reply, a leading ICT Consulting Company, and subsequently as Strategy and Technology Advisor for various energy and utilities companies. In 2020 he co-founded SETA, a company focused on live and e-learning Cybersecurity Education, which he is currently leading as CEO.

SETA administrator, CEO and Senior Security Consultant at Enforcer. He has been involved in research, consultancy and training in the security of information systems and telecommunications networks since 1998 and in IT since 1992. He was among the first in Italy to deal with application security, Wi-Fi network security, and OT security, and is publicly recognised as an expert in IT security issues. In his career he has followed projects for security infrastructures, risk and vulnerability auditing and analysis, ethical hacking, Secure Software Development Life Cycle, management and response to IT incidents, training, security policies, operational procedures, compliance, etc, for clients such as banks, public bodies and companies of national and international importance. He is the founder of “sikurezza.org”, a non-commercial portal aimed at disseminating information security issues.