Junaid Arshad is an Associate Professor in cybersecurity at the Birmingham City University, UK. Junaid achieved his PhD from the University of Leeds, UK where he investigated the challenge of effective intrusion severity analysis for clouds. His research is focused on challenges within cyber security emphasising the impact of novel and emerging technological paradigms, such as blockchain, distributed systems, cloud computing and big data. He has been actively involved in publishing high-quality research within this field and has served on a Program and Review Committee of a number of journals and conferences.