Andrea Allievi is an Italian computer security researcher with over 6 years experience. He graduated in 2010 from University Milano Bicocca with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. For his thesis, he developed a Master Boot Record (MBR) Bootkit entirely in 64 bit capable of defeating some Windows 7 protections. He is also the original designer of the first UEFI Bootkit. Andrea specialized in operating systems internals, from kernel level code all the way to user-land code. He has completed a lot of security-related researches, ranging from all kind of Malware (especially Kernel-mode rootkit) to the analysis of particular Operating systems security features (like Windows 8 AppContainers for example).