GUARINO ALESSANDRO

Their core work

StudioAG is a small Italian private consultancy — likely a specialist sole-trader or micro-firm operating under the name of its principal — with focused expertise in cybersecurity and digital forensics. Their participation in the YAKSHA project points to work on cybersecurity awareness, threat detection, and knowledge systems, while their LOCARD involvement indicates hands-on practice in lawful digital evidence collection, chain-of-custody assurance, and blockchain-based evidence integrity. They contribute specialist practitioner knowledge to research consortia rather than academic or infrastructure capacity. Their profile suggests a professional who bridges the gap between technical security research and real-world law enforcement or legal-sector application.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earliest H2020 engagement (YAKSHA, 2018), the focus was on cybersecurity at the systemic and awareness level — helping people and organisations understand and respond to threats. By 2019, with LOCARD, the focus had shifted decisively toward the forensic and legal dimensions of cybercrime: not prevention, but evidence — how to collect it lawfully, preserve it reliably, and prove it in court using blockchain and secure execution environments. This represents a meaningful deepening from broad cybersecurity into a specialist niche at the intersection of digital forensics, law enforcement, and legal-tech.

StudioAG is moving toward the forensic and legal-tech end of the security spectrum, suggesting future relevance for projects involving digital evidence, cybercrime investigation tooling, or blockchain-based trust infrastructure for law enforcement and judicial contexts.

How they like to work

StudioAG has participated only as a consortium partner — never as a project coordinator — across both H2020 projects. Despite this passive coordination role, they operated within surprisingly large consortia: 35 unique partners across 16 countries from just two projects, suggesting they joined well-funded, multi-partner research actions rather than small bilateral projects. This pattern points to a specialist contributor who is brought in for specific domain expertise rather than for project leadership or administrative capacity.

StudioAG has built a European-scale network of 35 consortium partners spanning 16 countries across just two projects, which is unusually broad for an organisation of this size. This reach reflects the large, multi-country consortia typical of ICT and Security pillar Innovation and Research Actions.

What sets them apart

StudioAG occupies a narrow but useful niche at the junction of cybersecurity and digital forensics — a combination that is increasingly relevant as law enforcement and justice systems grapple with internet crime and admissible digital evidence. As a private practitioner rather than a university or research institute, they likely bring applied, real-world perspective to projects that might otherwise skew too academic. For a consortium that needs a practitioner voice in cybercrime, digital evidence law, or blockchain-based forensic tools, this is a meaningful contribution profile.

Highlights from their portfolio

• LOCARD
  Addresses the technically and legally complex problem of lawful digital evidence collection with blockchain and Trusted Execution Environments — a highly specific niche at the frontier of cybercrime investigation and legal admissibility.
• YAKSHA
  StudioAG's first H2020 engagement, in the ICT pillar, focused on systemic cybersecurity awareness — providing the foundation from which their forensic specialisation later developed.