
Alessandro Cantelli Forti
Research Consultant
Researcher at the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, Radar, and Surveillance Systems National Lab since February 2012. Specialized in cybersecurity, forensic engineering, incident management, and remediation. Participated in the NATO AFSC Small Scale Study Project IV on “Information Assurance” in 2018, receiving appreciation from NATO Chief Scientist Dr. Thomas H. Killion. Served as the research manager for two projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Defense, focusing on cyber risk management in radar systems for hypersonic threats and cyber resilience in the military underwater environment. Appointed as a digital evidence expert in various criminal cases, including ship accidents and high-profile incidents. Published scientific papers and technical reports. NATO Project Director for the “Anti-Drones – Innovative concept to detect, recognize and track ‘killer-drones’” project from June 2019 to September 2022. Coordinated scientific and technical aspects of the project funded by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme. European Defence Agency Governmental expert in the Cyber Defence Capability Technology Area (CapTech) since June 2023. Previously served as a non-governmental expert in the same area from September 2020 to June 2023. Co-founder of ECHOES s.r.l, a CNIT spin-off company focused on radar systems, since July 2015. Lecturer at various universities, delivering advanced training courses in digital forensics and network forensics. Also served as a lecturer for a Master’s program and delivered lectures on network security and forensic engineering. Internship at the WebLab Laboratory, Department of Engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, from November 2017 to October 2018. Guest Lecturer in Digital Forensics applied to industrial accidents for organizations such as EMAIIF, MAIB, and DIGIFEMA, presenting on naval safety and information security at various international institutions.
Publications
2025
XAI-Driven Resilient Image Classification in the Presence of Adversarial Perturbations Journal Article
In: IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, vol. 19, no 1, 2025, (Cited by: 0).
Detecting the Unseen: Exploiting Radar-Sonar Sensor Fusion for Visual Detection of Low-Profile Naval Drones Journal Article
In: Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2436 CCIS, pp. 263 – 276, 2025, (Cited by: 0).
WEFT: a consistent and tamper-proof methodology for acquisition of automatically verifiable forensic web evidence Journal Article
In: International Journal of Information Security, vol. 24, no 2, 2025, (Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
Evaluating Killer Drone Defense: NATO SPS Project “Anti-Drones” Field Trials Journal Article
In: Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2436 CCIS, pp. 277 – 291, 2025, (Cited by: 0).
Collective victim counting in post-disaster response: A distributed, power-efficient algorithm via BLE spontaneous networks Journal Article
In: Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 106, 2025, (Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
Advances in UAV detection: integrating multi-sensor systems and AI for enhanced accuracy and efficiency Journal Article
In: International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, vol. 49, 2025, (Cited by: 1; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access).
SHAP-Assisted Resilience Enhancement Against Adversarial Perturbations in Optical and SAR Image Classification Journal Article
In: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 22, 2025, (Cited by: 0).
Insights from field experience: digital forensics of event and voyage data recorders in transportation systems accident investigation Journal Article
In: International Journal of Information Security, vol. 24, no 4, 2025, (Cited by: 3).
Entropy-Based Bayesian Model Averaging for Enhancing Classification Resilience Against Adversarial Perturbations Using SAR Images Journal Article
In: 2025, (Cited by: 0).
Covert BLE Data Exfiltration via Apple's Find My Network: A Malware Prototype and Defense Strategies Journal Article
In: pp. 581 - 587, 2025, (Cited by: 0).
Machine Learning Algorithms and Sensor Technologies for Aging-In-Place Applications: A Review Journal Article
In: IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 25, no 18, pp. 34326 - 34347, 2025, (Cited by: 0; All Open Access; Hybrid Gold Open Access).
2024
Generative AI Threats to Maritime Navigation Using Deceptive ISAR Images Journal Article
In: IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 173800 – 173809, 2024, (Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Gold Open Access).
In: Modelling, vol. 5, no 4, pp. 1773 – 1788, 2024, (Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Gold Open Access).
Generative AI Threats to Maritime Navigation Using Deceptive ISAR Images Journal Article
In: IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 173800 – 173809, 2024, (Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Gold Open Access).
In: Modelling, vol. 5, no 4, pp. 1773 – 1788, 2024, (Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Gold Open Access).
2023
Developing the GoogleNet neural network for the detection and recognition of unmanned aerial vehicles in the data Fusion System Journal Article
In: Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, vol. 2, no 9-122, pp. 16-25, 2023.
2022
vol. 2022-October, 2022, (ANTIDRONES).
An Image-Based Classification Module for Data Fusion Anti-drone System Journal Article
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13374 LNCS, pp. 422-433, 2022.
vol. 2022-October, 2022.
An Image-Based Classification Module for Data Fusion Anti-drone System Journal Article
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13374 LNCS, pp. 422-433, 2022.
2021
Critical infrastructure protection system design based on SCOUT multitech seCurity system for intercOnnected space control groUnd staTions Journal Article
In: International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, vol. 32, 2021.
Critical infrastructure protection system design based on SCOUT multitech seCurity system for intercOnnected space control groUnd staTions Journal Article
In: International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, vol. 32, 2021, (SCOUT).
2020
Digital Forensics in Vessel Transportation Systems Journal Article
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12056 LNCS, pp. 354-362, 2020.
Digital Forensics in Vessel Transportation Systems Journal Article
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12056 LNCS, pp. 354-362, 2020, (cited By 0).
2019
Principles of Forensic Engineering Applied to Industrial Accidents - Fire on board of a ferryboat Book
WILEY ACADEMIC, 2019, ISBN: 1118962818.
Principles of Forensic Engineering Applied to Industrial Accidents - Fire on board of a ferryboat Book
WILEY ACADEMIC, 2019, ISBN: 1118962818.
2018
Information security in critical transport systems: Case studies and lessons learned Journal Article
In: Journal of Cybersecurity, 2018.
Information security in critical transport systems: Case studies and lessons learned Journal Article
In: Journal of Cybersecurity, 2018.
Forensic analysis of industrial critical systems: The costa concordia's voyage data recorder case Conference
2018, (cited By 0).
A novel cyber attack modeling and simulation framework for critical infrastructure security analysis Journal Article
In: Proc. of SET-262 Specialists’ Meeting on Artificial Intelligence for Military Multisensor Fusion Engines, 2018.
Forensic analysis of industrial critical systems: The costa concordia's voyage data recorder case Conference
2018, (cited By 0).
A novel cyber attack modeling and simulation framework for critical infrastructure security analysis Journal Article
In: Proc. of SET-262 Specialists’ Meeting on Artificial Intelligence for Military Multisensor Fusion Engines, 2018.
2017
Incendio della Motonave Norman Attlantic: Indagini Multidisciplinari in Incidente Probatorio Conference
2017.
Incendio della Motonave Norman Attlantic: Indagini Multidisciplinari in Incidente Probatorio Conference
2017.
Ship’s digital evidences as an open format data logger of a network of sensors Conference
2017.
Ship’s digital evidences as an open format data logger of a network of sensors Conference
2017.
2016
The importance of Open Format for storing digital data asynchronously generated from multiple sensors Conference
2016.
The importance of Open Format for storing digital data asynchronously generated from multiple sensors Conference
2016.
Evidence recovery and analysis from the Costa Concordia’s digital data by means of forensic techniques: turn data into information Conference
2016.
An architecture for securing communications in critical infrastructure Conference
vol. 1, 2016, (SCOUT).
Evidence recovery and analysis from the Costa Concordia’s digital data by means of forensic techniques: turn data into information Conference
2016.
An architecture for securing communications in critical infrastructure Conference
vol. 1, 2016, (SCOUT).
2015
Software-defined multiband array passive radar (SMARP) demonstrator Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 5th PCL Focus Days 2015, 2015, (SMARP).
Software-defined multiband array passive radar (SMARP) demonstrator Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 5th PCL Focus Days 2015, 2015, (SMARP).
