Claudio A. Ardagna is an associate professor at Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. His research interests include information security and privacy in cloud and IoT, security assurance and compliance, and Big Data analytics. Within the above areas, he has published 130+ contributions in international journals, conference/workshop proceedings, and chapters in international books. He is a co–author of the book "Open Source Systems Security Certification" published by Springer. He has been visiting researcher at Khalifa University and George Mason University. He is a co-founder of Moon-Cloud, a spin-off of the Università degli Studi di Milano providing a platform distributed as a service for security compliance and governance. He is IEEE senior member, received IFIP Silver Core Award, and won the ERCIM STM WG 2009 award for the best PhD thesis on security and trust management in a European University.