Prof. Dr. Amit Dvir is currently the Head of the Computer and Software Engineering Department, Ariel University, Israel. He leads a network security research group and is the Head of the Ariel Cyber Innovation Center (ACIC). He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, all in communication systems engineering. During 2011-2012, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security in Budapest, Hungary. His research lies at the intersection of networks and cyber, motivated by problems presented by real life in network security.