Security Framework for The Internet of Things Applications

Salma Abdalla Hamad is currently a Senior Technology Security Compliance Manager at a telecommunication firm.. She received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia in 2021. She worked under the supervision of Professor Michael Sheng and Dr. Wei Emma Zhang. Salma obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Egypt with distinctions in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Salma also possesses more than 19 years of working experience in both the government sector and the financial sector, where she executed several projects pertinent to Information Security. Her research interests are concentrated in the domain of Information Security, more specifically, for the Internet of Things, Smart Cities, and Smart Homes.

Quan Z. Sheng is a full Professor and Head of the Department of Computing at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His research interests include the Internet of Things, service-oriented computing, distributed computing, Internet computing, and pervasive computing. Professor Sheng holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and did his post-doc as a research scientist at CSIRO ICT Centre. Professor Sheng is the recipient of the AMiner Most Influential Scholar in IoT Award in 2019, the ARC Future Fellowship in 2014, the Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution in 2012, and a Microsoft fellowship in 2003.

Wei Emma Zhang is currently a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science, at the University of Adelaide. Her research interests include the Internet of Things, text mining, data mining, and knowledge base. She received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide in 2017. She has authored and co-authored more than 50 papers. She has also served on various conference committees and international journals in different roles such as track chair, proceeding chair, PC member, and reviewer. She is a member of the IEEE and ACM.