--- title: "About us | The people behind Edge SDN" description: "Edge SDN is the product line of Stoorm5, Bologna, Italy. Network segmentation for industrial plants and CRA readiness tools for machine builders." url: https://www.edge-sdn.com/company/about/ last_updated: 2026-10-01 --- # We keep machines working while the rules change around them Edge SDN is the product line of Stoorm5, an Italian company based in Bologna. It helps machine builders, software builders and plant operators get ready for the EU Cyber Resilience Act, the Machinery Regulation and NIS2. The products are Shield Lifecycle, Edge Shield and the Edge SDN platform. Why we built this ## From the plant network to the machine itself We started inside industrial networks. Our first job was to protect production processes without stopping them. We show what talks to what, put each process in its own zone and leave control to the people on the shop floor. That work became the Edge SDN platform and the Edge Shield switch. Then the rules changed. The Cyber Resilience Act and the new Machinery Regulation moved part of the responsibility from the plant to the company that builds the machine. A machine builder now answers for the software inside every machine it ships, for years after delivery. Most machine builders have excellent mechanical and automation engineers and nobody who does cybersecurity full time. They do not need another scanner. They need someone who does the daily work for them and tells them only what matters. That is Shield Lifecycle. ### Edge SDN and Stoorm5 Edge SDN is our brand and the name of our product line. Stoorm5 is the company behind it: it develops the products, signs the contracts and is responsible for the service. ### Facts - Based in Bologna, Italy - Three products: Shield Lifecycle, Edge Shield, Edge SDN - Designed around IEC 62443 and NIST SP 800-82 - CIOsumm.IT 2024 Special Award by Digital360, Information and Cybersecurity category - Present at RSA Conference 2025 and SPS Nuremberg 2025 13–16 October 2026 ### Meet us at 35.BI-MU fieramilano Rho, Milan. Hall 24, stand A60C. Come and see a critical CVE hit a machine, live. [Pick a 15-minute slot at the stand ](https://meet.brevo.com/edge-sdn-team/bi-mu) Who you talk to ## The people behind the product We are a small team. In a pilot you work with the people who built the platform, not with an account manager. ### Aldo Campi Co-founder and CEO, Stoorm5 PhD in engineering from the University of Bologna and ten years as a researcher before he founded the company. Since then he has worked inside production networks, and he is the person you talk to in a pilot. [Aldo Campi on LinkedIn ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aldo-campi/) How we work ## Four rules we hold ourselves to ### We do not promise compliance The manufacturer declares conformity. We supply the monitoring, the judgments and the evidence, and we say clearly where our part ends. ### We respect production Everything we build is designed to be added in a planned maintenance window, without changing what already works. ### We cite the law, not opinions Every date and duty on this site links to the official text. When the rules are not final, we say so. ### Your data stays yours Shield Lifecycle runs in our cloud today and a version for your own server is coming. The Edge SDN platform runs on-premises or in the cloud. Each customer sees only their own machines. Find us ## Bologna, Italy Stoorm5 Via Natalino Corazza 7/7 40128 Bologna (BO), Italy [info@edge-sdn.com](mailto:info@edge-sdn.com) ### Partners System integrators, CE and ISO consultants and certification bodies: your customers are starting to ask about the CRA. Let us talk about how to serve them together. [Become a partner](https://www.edge-sdn.com/contact/?profile=partner) ### Press Journalists and analysts: we answer questions on the CRA, the Machinery Regulation and OT security with facts and sources. [Contact us](https://www.edge-sdn.com/contact/?profile=press) ## See a critical CVE hit a machine We show you the moment that matters: a new vulnerability lands. One machine is exposed and the other is not. The customer notice is ready to send. Meet us at 35.BI-MU, fieramilano Rho, 13–16 October 2026