Zouheir Trabelsi is a Professor of network security at the College of Information Technology (CIT) at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). Prior to joining UAEU, he was a computer science researcher at the Central Research Laboratory of Hitachi in Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Tokyo University of Technology and Agriculture, Japan. Dr. Zouheir's research interests include zero trust architecture, network security, intrusion detection and prevention, firewalls, network covert channels, information security education, and curriculum development.