Biography

Lucky Onwuzurike, PhD is an Information Security Professional with a demonstrated history of information security management, IT risk and security assessments, gap and maturity assessments, IT audits and compliance, information security roadmap design, risk management strategy implementation, governance, risk, & compliance (GRC), security tools development, delivering cybersecurity training, and research and technical writing. I have experience working with over 30 different clients in different industries and sectors including, government and private sectors, Energy, Telecom, Oil and Gas, Consumer Products and Retail, Pharmaceutical, Housing, Banking and Finance, and Asset Management industries. I have helped these organisations improve their cybersecurity posture to enable them to achieve their business objectives.

I also have strong research publication contributions to the security & privacy community and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Information Security (Information Security Group) from the University College London (UCL) where I was supervised by Prof. Emiliano De Cristofaro and Dr. Gianluca Stringhini. While a Doctoral researcher at UCL, I was teaching assistant for two MSc Information Security modules – Computer Security II and Cryptanalysis. My research interests include: Android security, security and privacy issues on online social networks, and network security. In recent times, I have also developed interest in cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT). Prior to starting my PhD, I obtained an MSc in Information Security at UCL and a BEng in Computer Engineering at the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria.

Aside from consulting and research, I also have experience working as a Web developer and Network Engineer. I am a music lover (erm.. I know my voice is terrible, so I only sing to myself in the bathroom), I follow latest trends in IT and watch football occasionally. I also play football when I have the opportunity and I have a history of scoring fantastic goals Zlatan Ibrahimović would be proud of. 😉

I was teaching assistant for the following MSc Information security modules at UCL:

• COMPGA02: Computer Security II (3 years)
• COMPGA18: Cryptanalysis (1 year)

I have also provided academic services either as a reviewer/sub-reviewer for the following security and privacy conferences/journals:

• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
• ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS)
• IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P)
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)