MURAD A. RASSAM received a B.Sc. degree in Information Engineering from the Faculty of Information Engineering, Tishreen University, Syria, in 2005, an M.Sc. degree in Information Security from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM, Malaysia, in 2010, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (information security) from the Faculty of Computing, UTM, in 2013. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity at the College of Computer, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. He is the recipient of several academic awards and recognitions, including the UTM Alumni Award, UTM Best Postgraduate Student Award, and UTM Excellence Award. His research interests include, but are not limited to, information assurance and security, network security, wireless sensor networks, vehicular ad hoc networks, cloud computing security, and applied data mining and machine learning in the information security domain.