RAKAN A. ALSOWAIL is an assistant professor at King Saud University. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from King Abdulaziz University in 2008. He got his M.S. degree in Information Technology from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom (UK) in 2011. He also earned his PhD in Informatics from the University of Sussex in 2016. His research interests include language-based security, information flow, program analysis, programming languages, information security, insider threats and file sharing.