Saiida Lazaar started her scientific career with a research position at CNRS in France. After her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Aix-Marseille I University, she held research positions with IFP in France and ONDRAF/ULB in Belgium. Since 2001, she has been a full Professor at the National School of Applied Sciences of Tangier - AbdelMalek Essaadi University (Morocco), President-Funder of the Association ‘La Colombe pour la Promotion du Logiciel Libre’, Responsible for the Cybersecurity Engineering program, and formerly Head of Master CyberSecurity and cyberCriminality (MCSC 2016 to 2023).