Stefano Ortolani

Threat Research Lead

Stefano Ortolani is Head of Threat Research and AI at Broadcom, also serving as Security Lead for “Intelligent Assist for VMware vDefend." Previously, he held roles including Staff Engineer 2 at VMware, Director of Threat Research at Lastline, and Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab. Stefano earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from VU University Amsterdam in 2013.

Author's Posts

Stacking Your Defenses: Integrating Advanced Threat Prevention and SIEM

SIEM

Stacking Your Defenses: Integrating Advanced Threat Prevention and SIEM

Stefano Ortolani, Aditya Gokhale November 12, 2025 25 min read

The Art of Managing Threat Feeds

Threat Intelligence

The Art of Managing Threat Feeds

Stefano Ortolani March 2, 2023 12 min read

How to Deploy a Threat Intelligence Platform in your Data Center

Threat Intelligence

How to Deploy a Threat Intelligence Platform in your Data Center

Stefano Ortolani January 5, 2023 12 min read

EmoLoad: Loading Emotet Modules without Emotet

Threat Analysis Unit

EmoLoad: Loading Emotet Modules without Emotet

Oleg Boyarchuk, Stefano Ortolani December 5, 2022 11 min read

ESXi-Targeting Ransomware: Tactics and Techniques (Part 2)

Threat Analysis Unit

ESXi-Targeting Ransomware: Tactics and Techniques (Part 2)

Oleg Boyarchuk, Giovanni Vigna, Stefano Ortolani October 28, 2022 22 min read

How to Replicate Emotet Lateral Movement

Threat Analysis Unit

How to Replicate Emotet Lateral Movement

Oleg Boyarchuk, Stefano Ortolani August 19, 2022 15 min read

Emotet Config Redux

Threat Analysis Unit

Emotet Config Redux

Oleg Boyarchuk, Stefano Ortolani May 25, 2022 8 min read

Hermetic Malware: Multi-component Threat Targeting Ukraine Organizations

Misc

Hermetic Malware: Multi-component Threat Targeting Ukraine Organizations

Giovanni Vigna, Oleg Boyarchuk, Stefano Ortolani March 4, 2022 14 min read

Log in the Shell: An Analysis of Log4Shell Exploitation

Threat Analysis Unit

Log in the Shell: An Analysis of Log4Shell Exploitation

Stefano Ortolani, Sebastiano Mariani, Jason Zhang, Giovanni Vign ... December 14, 2021 11 min read

Research Recap: How To Automate Malware Campaign Detection With Telemetry Peak Analyzer

Threat Analysis Unit

Research Recap: How To Automate Malware Campaign Detection With Telemetry Peak Analyzer

Jason Zhang, Stefano Ortolani, Giovanni Vigna November 11, 2021 19 min read