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Dario Ciccarone

PSIRT Incident Manager

Cisco Security Research and Operations

Dario Ciccarone, CCIE No. 10395, works as a PSIRT Incident Manager in the Security Research and Operations organization at Cisco. In this role, Dario investigates, drives to resolution and writes associated security advisories for any reported vulnerability affecting Cisco products. He's also created mitigation techniques to be used in conjunction with Cisco security advisories and white papers that detail specific security threats, techniques or technologies. In addition to that, Dario has also been an invited speaker at multiple FIRST

(http://www.first.org) conferences.

Dario Lives in New Jersey with his wife, daughter and dog. In his spare time, he's an avid photographer.

Articles

May 27, 2015

SECURITY

Understanding Logjam and Future-Proofing Your Infrastructure

3 min read

On May 19th, 2015 a team of researchers (Henninger et. al) published a paper with the title “Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice”. The paper can be divided in two sections: 1) discrete logs on a 512-bit Diffie-Hellman (DH) group, and 2) a new attack against the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. We’ll […]