Fatimah Alakeel is an assistant professor at King Saud University and also the vice head of KSU training center. She is the founder and CEO of CIAG, a non-profit organisation focused on building capacity in information security. Fatimah had completed her PhD from University of Southampton,

UK, and her MSc from DePaul University, USA. Her research interests fall between information security, datascience, software engineering and digital forensics. In addition to her academic career, she is a cybersecurity consultant at a number of entities, a trainer, and a speaker.