Mr. Simon Pietro Romano is a professor in the “Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology” at the University of Napoli Federico II. He teaches computer networks, computer architectures, network security, and telematics applications. He actively participates in IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standardization activities. He conducts research in the field of networking since 1998. He has contributed to the field of real-time multimedia applications, with special regard to the design, implementation and standardization of scalable, distributed architectures for conferencing, media control and telepresence. He has carried out research in the field of network security, by mainly focusing on distributed intrusion detection, critical infrastructure protection and AI-based automation of Penetration Testing techniques. He has recently started investigating issues associated with distribution of control in 5G-compliant, container-based, virtualized architectures.