Professional profile
Fabio currently serves as Global Plants Cybersecurity Manager at Barilla, where his work focuses on leading and maturing cybersecurity capabilities across manufacturing environments and aligning industrial security with governance, resilience, engineering, operations and business continuity.
His professional background combines corporate cybersecurity leadership, consulting and European-funded security and innovation projects, with experience in cyber risk, incident analysis, digital forensics, vulnerability management, cyber threat intelligence and the evaluation of security technologies.
His work is characterised by the ability to connect technical complexity, operational constraints, risk governance and institutional context in environments where cybersecurity has strategic relevance.
European and institutional profile
Fabio has contributed as an independent expert and reviewer in European cybersecurity and security-related programmes, supporting the assessment and review of initiatives related to cybersecurity, digital security, industrial security and resilience.
Since 2021, he has lectured on OT cybersecurity for the training course for security professionals organised by Fondazione ICSA.
He is also an officer of the Italian Army Selected Reserve.
Academic background
Fabio holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Plymouth University. His academic research has covered evolutionary robotics, autonomous systems, neural networks and multi-agent coordination, later extending into security, intelligence analysis and European research initiatives.
This combination of cybersecurity leadership, industrial experience, European expert activities and AI research provides a broad perspective on technology, risk and resilience.
Selected professional credentials
The following credentials are included as a selected subset of Fabio’s cybersecurity certifications, highlighting governance, industrial cybersecurity and incident response.
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) — ISACA
- ISA/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Fundamentals Specialist — International Society of Automation
- EC-Council Certified Incident Handler v2 — EC-Council
Selected areas of expertise
- Cybersecurity governance and cyber risk management
- Industrial cybersecurity and OT security governance
- Operational resilience and cybersecurity maturity improvement
- Security architecture for manufacturing and business-critical environments
- European cybersecurity and security-related initiatives
- Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and multi-agent coordination
- Cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability management and incident analysis