Khalid Adnan Alissa has a PhD in information security from QUT, Australia. Khalid is currently an assistant professor in the “cyber security and digital forensics” program at the college of computer science and information technology at IAU. He is also an information security consultant. Khalid’s area of interest in research is social engineering, access control, information security, and network and cloud technologies. He is currently holding the position of dean of information and communication technology at IAU.