Sadiq Sani

Dr Sadiq Sani BSc, MSc, PhD, CEH, ECSA

Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity (Operational Technology Cyber Security)

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Dr Sadiq Sani

Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity (Operational Technology Cyber Security)

Dr Sadiq Sani received a PhD degree from The University of Sydney and professional education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker and an EC-Council Certified Security Analyst. With several professional and industry certifications and training in cybersecurity and Information Technology (IT), he is a highly trained cybersecurity, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), and Energy IT expert; with several years of industry experience and expertise ranging from penetration testing and countermeasures, through security architecture and engineering, to Industrial Control System (ICS) cybersecurity and network security. He is versed in the Internet of Things (IoT), distributed ledger technologies (such as blockchain), and Operational Technology (OT).

Dr Sadiq works very closely with the industry; currently advises on cybersecurity, ICT, and OT.

Prior to joining the University of Greenwich as a Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity, he was an industry-oriented researcher/project lead and a lecturer at the University of New South Wales and The University of Sydney, respectively. He focuses on industry research; his primary research interests include applied cryptography, IoT security and privacy, energy internet and smart grid/microgrid cybersecurity, distributed key management, risk assessments, IoT distributed ledger and cryptocurrency technologies, quantum cryptography, OT cybersecurity, network and communication security, secure software engineering, and distributed federated learning.

He is a member of EC-Council, ICS-CERT, ACS, IEEE, and ACM. He is a technical paper reviewer for IEEE TDSC, IEEE TII, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE TrustCom, and ACM Computing Surveys. He holds key intellectual property in identity management, cryptocurrency, and distributed ledger technologies.

Computer science