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Fabricio Bortoluzzi has a 5-year BS degree, 2-year MS degree, and 4-year DR degree in Computer Science. He has accumulated twenty years and more than 10 thousand hours of experience delivering live and remote lectures on the hardware/software interface of computer systems and networks, with a focus on cyber security and cloud computing. At Noroff, Fabricio works as an Associate Professor, where he serves as the Programme Leader for the Bachelor's Degree in Cyber Security. He currently teaches Operating Systems, Vulnerabilities: Exploration and Exploitation, and Cloud Fundamentals and Security.

Research

Fabricio dedicates his research time to the field of Internet Measurement, in particular, related to capturing, quantifying, identifying and qualifying threats that can affect the Internet at scale. His distributed, cloud-native capture mechanism, entitled Cloud Telescope, can be deployed within Amazon Web Services to capture Internet Background Radiation, an often malicious form of Internet traffic - darknet traffic - that reveals important malware and botnet propagation patterns exploiting the insecurity of computer systems, such as the embedded devices making up the Internet-of-Things. He is also interested in research applied to securing: cloud computing environments, cyber physical systems, operational technologies, and distributed/embedded systems.

Research using the Cloud Telescope has fostered more than thirty Bachelor Degree Projects at Noroff, ten monographies at the University of Vale do Itajai, and two Master's dissertations at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.

Selected Publications

F. Bortoluzzi, B. Irwin and C. M. Westphall, "Cloud Telescope: An Ephemeral, Distributed, and Cloud-Native Architecture for Collecting Internet Background Radiation," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 45682-45714, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3549623.

F. Bortoluzzi, B. Irwin, L. S. Beiler and C. M. Westphall, "Quantitative analysis of botnet activity within Internet Background Radiation as observed by a Cloud Telescope," 2024 19th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), Salamanca, Spain, 2024.

F. Bortoluzzi, B. Irwin, L. S. Beiler and C. M. Westphall, "Cloud Telescope: A distributed architecture for capturing Internet Background Radiation," 2023 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2023, pp. 77-85, doi: 10.1109/CloudNet59005.2023.10490018.

F. Bortoluzzi, B. Irwin and C. M. Westphall, "A cloud-native framework for globally distributed capture and analysis of Internet Background Radiation," 2023 18th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), Aveiro, Portugal, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.23919/CISTI58278.2023.10211290.

MEZGER, B.; BORTOLUZZI, F.; ZEFERINO, C. A.; VALIM, P.; MELO, D. R. A Basic Microkernel for the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture. Computer on the Beach. Online edition. 2021.

WACHSMANN, V. F.; MARTINS, R. B.; RESE, A. L. R.; BORTOLUZZI, F. W/B Planner: Vehicle Routing Solution for Chartered Passenger Transport. Computer on the Beach. Online edition. 2021.

CESCONETTO, J.; ALGUSTO SIVAL, L.; BORTOLUZZI, F.; NAVARRO-CÁCERES, MARÍA; ZEFERINO, C. A.; R. Q. LEITHARDT, V. PRIPRO-Privacy Profiles: User Profiling Management for Smart Environments. ELECTRONICS, v. 9, p. 1519-1519:22, 2020.

MELLIES NETO, A. F.; BORTOLUZZI, F.; SILVA, E. A.; ZEFERINO, C. A. Implementation of SIMON Block Cipher to Provide Confidentiality to a Network-on-Chip. Proceedings of the IEEE 33th Symposium on Microelectronics SIM 2018.

GONCALVES, H. W. M. S.; BORTOLUZZI, F.; ZEFERINO, C. A. Development of a real-time operating system for a basic microcontroller. In: Brazilian Symposium of Computer Systems and Engineering SBESC, 2013, Niterói. Proceedings..., 2013. p. 1-6.

Selected Datasets

Fabricio Bortoluzzi, Lucas Beiler, Barry Irwin, Carla Westphall (2024). Cloud Telescope Internet Background Radiation - October 2023 - February 2024. IEEE Dataport. doi: 10.21227/zkyy-gk56

Fabricio Bortoluzzi, Lucas Beiler, Barry Irwin, Carla Westphall (2024). Cloud Telescope Internet Background Radiation August 2023. IEEE Dataport. doi: 10.21227/hs3j-pg74

Fabricio Bortoluzzi, Lucas Beiler, Barry Irwin, Carla Westphall (2024). Cloud Telescope Internet Background Radiation May 2023. IEEE Dataport. doi: 10.21227/sg9h-ta16

Selected GitHub repositories

Cloud Telescope: Terraform architecture. Compatible with AWS Web Services. Available at: https://github.com/lucasbeiler/ibr-iac

Cloud Telescope: Extract-Transform-Load dataset enrichment pipeline. Available at: https://github.com/bortoluzzi/ibr-etl