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Luciano F.

Luciano F.

Fractional CISO | Penetration Tester | AI Security | CISSP, CISM, CEH

I help organizations reduce cybersecurity risk, secure products, meet compliance requirements, and build practical security capabilities. Certifications: CISSP | CCISO | CISM | CRISC | CEH | C|RAGE (Responsible AI Governance) | ISO/IEC 27001 I am an experienced Chief Information Security Officer, penetration tester, cybersecurity instructor, course creator, and founder of LufSec. I work with startups, SaaS companies, enterprise teams, and training organizations that need senior cybersecurity expertise without unnecessary complexity or full-time overhead. My services include: FRACTIONAL CISO AND SECURITY LEADERSHIP • Build or mature cybersecurity programs • Perform security, risk, and compliance assessments • Develop security strategies, roadmaps, policies, and metrics • Prepare organizations for SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, CCPA, and customer security reviews • Evaluate security architecture, vendors, cloud environments, and operational controls • Support executive teams, boards, auditors, customers, and investors • Implement vulnerability management, incident response, DevSecOps, security awareness, and third-party risk programs PENETRATION TESTING AND APPLICATION SECURITY • Web application penetration testing • API security testing • Cloud and infrastructure security assessments • Vulnerability validation and risk prioritization • OWASP Top 10 testing • Authentication, authorization, session, business-logic, and access-control testing • Executive and technical reports with clear remediation guidance • Retesting and remediation support AI AND LLM SECURITY • AI application and agent security assessments • Prompt injection and indirect prompt injection testing • LLM red teaming and adversarial testing • Sensitive-data exposure and unsafe tool-use analysis • AI governance, acceptable-use policies, and enterprise guardrails • Secure adoption of ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and other AI assistants • AI security workshops for technical and non-technical teams CYBERSECURITY TRAINING AND CUSTOM COURSE DEVELOPMENT • Customized corporate cybersecurity workshops • Instructor-led remote and onsite training • Cybersecurity course design and curriculum development • Hands-on labs, demonstrations, assessments, and instructor materials • Executive, technical, and non-technical audience training • Topics including penetration testing, web hacking, AI security, cloud security, IoT security, secure development, governance, and compliance WHY CLIENTS HIRE ME • Active CISO-level leadership experience • More than two decades of cybersecurity experience • Strong combination of executive strategy and hands-on technical capability • Experience implementing security programs in SaaS and enterprise environments • Practical communication for executives, engineers, auditors, customers, and students • Published cybersecurity author, instructor, podcaster, and course creator • Founder of LufSec and host of Inside Cyber Minds • Native Portuguese speaker with professional English fluency I do not deliver generic reports, recycled policies, or theoretical presentations. My work is designed to produce a measurable outcome: reduced risk, stronger controls, clearer decisions, improved compliance readiness, actionable technical findings, or a workforce that knows how to operate securely. Send me a message with your environment, challenge, timeline, and expected outcome. I will help you determine the most effective scope and approach.

🇺🇸Winter Garden, United States$125/hr100% JSS4.99 (11)Since Jul 2018
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$0

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#205,007 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#32,690 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$0
Total earnings
$9k

Billed in all: $9.3k

World#205,007 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#32,690 / 62.1k
Per project
$451
Projects, last 6 months
0
World#209,850 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#27,405 / 62.1k
Projects in all
20

Across 22 contracts

59% fixed41% hourly
World#133,447 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#19,377 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$9.3kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$9.1k$9.2k$9.3k$9.4kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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