Dr. Giovanni Vigna a faculty member of the Computer Science Department at the University of California in Santa Barbara and co-founder and CTO of Lastline.

Vigna is the director of the Center for CyberSecurity at UCSB, and co-director of the Security Lab. He is also part of the iSeclab and of the Shellphish and Epic Fail hacker groups. He also organizes the International Capture The Flag (iCTF), the world's largest hacking competition.