Professional Membership

• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• Professional Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Full Member, The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA)-Full Member (MIITPSA) -Membership No.K043150

Professional Activities

Editorial and Special Issues handled

• Chair and organizing committee member. The International Workshop on Engineering Intelligent, Trustworthy, and Secure Internet of Things (IoT) Systems (SYNERGY 2023). Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023 https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/SYNERGY2023/index.html
• Guest Editor. (2022-2023). Electronics Journal.  Special Issue on “Security and Privacy in 6G-Enabled IoT”https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/ZGC630XVQA
• Guest Editor(2021-2022) Special Issue “Security of Data & IoT Infrastructures, Cyber Security, and Intelligent IoT Techniques”, Infrastructure Journal 2020-2021 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/infrastructures/special_issues/intelligent_IoT_techniques
• Guest Editor (2022-2023): Future Trends in Soft Computing for Security Optimization in Social Networks: Available at https://www.springer.com/journal/500/updates/23688434
• Web Chair: IEEE NFV-SDN 2022 Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network 2022 https://nfvsdn2022.ieee-nfvsdn.org/committee/
• Editorial Board Member. Forensic Science International: Reports Journal.       https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/forensic-science-international-reports/about/editorial-board
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Journal and Conference Review

• ACM Computing Surveys, ACM
• Reviewer, Journal of Forensic Sciences, WILEY, American Academy of Forensic Sciences
• Reviewer, IEEE Access, Multidisciplinary Journal 2019-Present
• Reviewer, IEEE Security and Privacy Journal, 2021
• Reviewer, IEEE, South Africa Computing Journal (SACJ)
• Reviewer, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIRE), Forensic Science 2020 http://(http://wires.wiley.com/forensicsci
• IFIP-Information Security of South Africa (ISSA)-Technical Programme Committee Member
•  International Workshop on the Security and Digital Forensics of Cloud Computing –SeFoCloud-Programme Committee Member.
•  International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA)-Programme Committee Member.
• WG4 Resolution member (South Africa) – ISO/IEC WD1 27035-3 which deals with Information Security Incident Management-Part 3: Guidelines for Incident Response Operation. Status-Working Draft.2018
• WG Resolution member (South Africa) – ISO/IEC 27043 which dealt with Information technology – Security techniques – Incident investigation principles and processes: Status-Published standard, 2014-2015.
•  Reviewer- Computer Standards & Interfaces – Journal –Elsevier, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-standards-and-interfaces, 2018
• Reviewever, Telematics and Informatics-Elsevier, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/telematics-and-informatics
• Reviewer, Journal of Cloud Computing-Springer, https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/, 2018
• Reviewer, Future Internet Journal , https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet
• Reviewer,  Applied Sciences Journal, 2020, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci
• Reviewer, Electronics Journal, 2020 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics
• Reviewer, Entropy Journal, 2020, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy
• Reviewer, Sustainability Journal, 2020, httpshttps://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability

Research Rating Review

Reviewer: National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa

Postgraduate Scholarship Review

Reviewer for Postgraduate Scholarship: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), China

ISO/IEC Participation

• ISO/IEC 27043:2015 WG Resolution member

(ISO – International Organization for Standardization):2014-Served as a WG Resolution member (South Africa) – ISO/IEC 27043 which dealt with Information technology — Security techniques — Incident investigation principles and processes: Areas of interest: Digital Forensic Readiness.

• ISO/IEC WD1 27035 WG4 Resolution Member

Participated as a resolution member for ISO/IEC WD1 27035 WG4 which deals with Information Security Incident Management-Part 3: Guidelines for Incident Response Operation.

           Attendance, Invited Addresses & Participation at Conference/Academic Forums

2022

• Seminar  Presentation:  Blockchain and Renewable Energy Marketplace, at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
• Seminar  Presentation: “Statistical Arbitrage: A quest for Financial Transparency at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

2021

• presentation of a paper at In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2021)At: Tartu, Estonia.

2020

• Presentation of a paper at IoT2020 Workshop, Malmö University, Malmö

2019

• presentation at Dynamic Intelligent Intensive Systems, Information Security, at Axis Communication, Lund, Sweden.
• Presented at DIVS Information Security workshop, at Malmö University, Sweden in conjunction with Axis communication  company
• Presented a research paper at the Internet of Things (IoT2019) conference at University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

2018

• Presented a research paper at the International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communication Systems (icABCD 2018), Mauritius.
• Presented a research paper at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (IEEE SmartIoT 2018) held on 17^th-19^th, August 2018 at Xi`an, Shaanxi, China.
• Presented a research paper at 2018 International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Computing Applications, 2018-IEEE Xplore, Port Louis, Mauritius.

2017

• Presented a research paper at the Next Generation Computing Applications 2017 conference, Mauritius.
• Presented a research paper at the pan African Conference on Science Computing and Telecommunications (PACT-2017), Nairobi, Kenya.
• Presented a research paper at the 12^th Annual IST-Africa 2017. An annual Ministerial Level Technology Research Conference. Durban, South Africa.
• Presented a research paper at University of Pretoria Computer Science Research Workshop 2017. An annual Departmental Research workshop, Groenkloof, South Africa.

                          2016                           

• Presented a Research paper at the 11^th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ICCWS 2016), Boston, USA.
• Presented a research paper at the 15^th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ECCWS), Munich, Germany.
• Presented a research paper at the International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, Vienna, Austria
• Presented a research paper at the 11^th Annual IST-Africa 2016. An annual Ministerial Level Technology Research Conference. Durban, South Africa.
• Presented a research paper at University of Pretoria Computer Science Research Workshop 2016. An annual Departmental Research workshop, Groenkloof, South Africa.

2015

• Presented a research paper at the 14^th International Information Security South Africa Conference (ISSA)-On Bath, Rosebank, Johannesburg.
• Presented a paper at the 10^th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security Kruger, South Africa.
• Presented a research paper at The Third International Conference on Cloud Security and Management, (ICCSM2015), University of Washington, Tacoma, USA.
• Presented a research paper at 14^th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security July 2015, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom (UK).
• Presented a research paper at University of Pretoria Computer Science Research Workshop 2016. An annual Departmental Research workshop, Groenkloof, South Africa.

2014

• Presented a research paper at The International conference on Digital Security and Forensics (DigitalSec2014). Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic
• Presented a research paper at The Third International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and Digital Forensics (CyberSec2014), Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Attended 13^th International Information Security South Africa Conference (ISSA)-On Bath, Rosebank, Johannesburg.