Author Archives: fguasconi

About fguasconi

Graduated in computer science, he’s been working for 10+ years within information security consulting, focusing on risk assessment, security and compliance management using international standards. Certified CISA, CISM, ITIL and ISFS, he is a qualified ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 auditor, having edited the Italian translations of the latter standard. Coauthor of the CLUSIT handbooks on PCI-DSS and on professional certifications, is an active QSA and a regular presence into events and publications on information security. Chairs the Italian ISO/IEC SC27 of UNINFO and sits in its board of directors, as for CLUSIT. He is a co-founder and president of the consulting firm BL4CKSWAN S.r.l.

Data Protection Officer, close to a unified certification scheme … and more

After more than a year of work, the draft of a national UNI/UNINFO standard defining profiles and competences of data protection and processing professionals reached its final public inquiry stage. One of the declared goals is to bring common, shared rules to avoid a “far west” effect on a market already crowded by proprietary initiatives,… Read More »

DPO and controller/processor certification schemes

Several developments for the professional certifications (DPOs among them) and for controller/processor certification are being built. Which one of them will win the race is still not so clear … let’s try to assess the situation (italian only): Il dpo e gli schemi di certificazione dei trattamenti from Fabio Guasconi

UNINFO – Privacy professional profiles

On tuesday october 13th, 14.00 hrs @ Agid, Rome via Listz 21 the first open doors workshop for drafting standards on those very important professional profiles will take place. If you are willing to participate a simple confirmation sent to UNINFO secretariat (salsano@uninfo.it) will be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Fabio GUASCONI