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About the Technical Reviewer
MassimoNardonehas more than 25 years of experience
in security, web/mobile development, cloud, and IT
architecture. His true IT passions are security and Android.
He has been programming and teaching how to program
with Android, Perl, PHP, Java, VB, Python, C/C++, and
MySQL for more than 20 years. He holds a Master of
Science degree in Computing Science from the University of
Salerno, Italy.
He has worked as a CISO, CSO, security executive, IoT
executive, project manager, software engineer, research
engineer, chief security architect, PCI/SCADA auditor,
and senior lead IT security/cloud/SCADA architect for many years. His technical skills
include security, Android, cloud, Java, MySQL, Drupal, Cobol, Perl, web and mobile
development, MongoDB, D3, Joomla, Couchbase, C/C++, WebGL, Python, Pro Rails,
Django CMS, Jekyll, Scratch, and more.
He worked as a visiting lecturer and supervisor for exercises at the Networking
Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology (Aalto University). He holds four
international patents (PKI, SIP, SAML, and Proxy areas). He is currently working for
Cognizant as the head of cybersecurity and CISO to help both internally and externally
with clients in areas of information and cybersecurity, like strategy, planning, processes,
policies, procedures, governance, awareness, and so forth. In June 2017 he became a
permanent member of the ISACA Finland Board.
Massimo has reviewed more than 45 IT books for different publishing companies and
is the coauthor of Pro Spring Security: Securing Spring Framework 5 and Boot 2-based
Java Applications (Apress, 2019), Beginning EJB in Java EE 8 (Apress, 2018), Pro JPA 2in
Java EE 8 (Apress, 2018), and Pro Android Games (Apress, 2015)
