Erdal Ozkaya Author

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is a leading Cybersecurity Professional with business development, management and academic skills who focuses on securing the Cyber Space and sharing his real-life skills as a Security Adviser, Speaker, Lecturer and Author. Erdal is known to be passionate about reaching communities, and creating cyber aware campaigns and leveraging new and innovative approaches and technologies to holistically address the information security and privacy needs for every person and organization in the world. He has authored many cybersecurity books as well as security certification courseware and exams for different vendors. He is an award-winning technical expert & speaker: His recent awards are: Microsoft Circle of Excellence Platinum Club (2017), NATO Center of Excellence (2016) Security Professional of the year by MEA Channel Magazine (2015), Professional of the year Sydney (2014) and many speaker of the year awards in conferences. He also holds Global Instructor of the year awards from EC Council and Microsoft. Erdal is also a part time lecture at Australian Charles Sturt University.

Dr. Rafiqul Islam has more than 15 years teaching and research experiences at different universities in Australia and overseas. Currently, He is working as an Associate Professor in Computing at Charles Sturt University, Australia and Leading the Cyber Security Research Group (CSRG) since 2014. He has a strong research background in Cybersecurity with specific focus on malware analysis and classification, Dark Web, authentication, dark web threat analysis, security in cloud, privacy in social media and Internet of Things (IoT). Dr. Islam has been involved, as General Chair, Cahir, and member of organizing committee and TPC, in a number of International conferences and acting as a member of an editorial team of different international journals. He has a strong publication record and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed scholarly research papers, book chapters and books. He is also one of the CSU chief investigators for the newly established $140 million Cybersecurity CRC, contributing to the projects related to resilient networks, Security and configuration management of IoT system, platform and architecture of cybersecurity as a service, and malware detection and removal. His contributions have been recognized as evidenced by numerous national and international recognitions and awards.