Sergio Caltagirone

My teaching interests focus on cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, and the governance of digital risk, with particular attention to how offensive cyber operations, online disinformation, and digitally mediated power projection affect individuals, organizations, and society. I design and teach practice-oriented courses that immerse students in the full intelligence cycle—collection, analysis, and communication—while emphasizing rigorous methods, analytic transparency, and the management of conscious and unconscious bias in assessing threats, actors, and victims. I am especially interested in how cyber operations shape and are shaped by policy, law, and structural power, including their unequal and sometimes intersectional impacts on critical infrastructure, public services, civil society, and marginalized populations. Across my classes, students learn to unearth and interpret complex threat activity using professional tools and methodologies, and to translate that insight into actionable guidance for technical, policy, and governance stakeholders.

My research examines how we find (hunt), track, understand, and respond to cyber threats intersecting all capabilities and instruments including technical analysis, organizational decision-making, and public policy. I focus on how states, organized crime, and extremist groups deploy offensive cyber operations and online disinformation against critical infrastructure, public services, civil society, and private-sector networks. A recurring theme in my work is how institutional power projection, cyber asymmetry, and uneven resource distributions shape which communities—such as smaller enterprises, civil society organizations, and historically marginalized groups—bear disproportionate cyber risk, and how methods, tools, and governance frameworks can improve analytic rigor, transparency, and accountability in cyber threat intelligence practice to protect these vulnerable stakeholders.