Andrea Allievi is an Italian security researcher specialized in Windows Internals, with at least 8 years’ experience. He graduated in 2010 from University Milano Bicocca with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. For his thesis, he developed the first Master Boot Record (MBR) Bootkit entirely in 64 bit capable of defeating some Windows 7 protections. He is the original designer of the first UEFI Bootkit (https://news.saferbytes.it/analisi/2012/09/uefi-technology-say-hello-to-the-windows-8-bootkit/). He specialized in operating systems internals, from kernel level code all the way to user-land code. He has completed a lot of security-related researches, ranging from all kind of Malware (especially Kernel-mode rootkit) to the analysis of particular Operating System Security features (like Windows 8 AppContainers for example). He is the author of the first original Patchguard 8.1 Bypass method, presented at the NoSuchCon Conference in the year 2014, located in Paris. You can find the talk here: www.nosuchcon.org/talks/2014/D2_01_Andrea_Allievi_Win8.1_Patch_protections.pdf Andrea has worked for almost 3 year as a Security Research Engineer in the Talos Security Research and Intelligence Group of Cisco Systems Inc. Starting from September 2016 Andrea is a Security Research Engineer of the Threat Intelligence Center team of Microsoft Ltd. Previously he has worked for TgSoft (a very small Italian Av company), PrevX, Webroot and Saferbytes. You can find the complete list of his analysis, talks and articles in his personal website: http://www.andrea-allievi.com/publications/.