Goal

The group will:

• Perform Information Security research that is relevant to the group members, the industrial partners, the nation and the region.
• Disseminate results of the research performed by the group.
• Increase awareness of the importance of Information Security within the community

• Dr. Ali Al-Qayedi
• Dr. Mohammed Al-Mualla
• Prof. Hussain Al-Ahmad
• Dr. Jamal Zemerly
• Dr. Ali Dawood
• Mr. Jacob Kuriyan

• Cryptography and Information Hiding
• Mobile and Wireless Security
• Network Security
• Web and Applications Security
• Biometric Security

• E-Commerce Transaction Security, M.Sc. Project.
• Identification Schemes in Wireless Open Network, M.Sc. Project
• Secure Autonomous Agents for Location-Based Mobile Services
• Biometric Authentication for Secure Web Access Control, Final Year Project
• Information Hiding and Detection using Steganography, Final Year Project
• Web-Based Image Authentication using Invisible Fragile Watermark, Final Year Project
• Digital Watermarking for Image Authentication, Final Year Project

• W. Adi, Ali Mabrouk, A. Al-Qayedi, A. Al-Zarooni, “Secure Combined Web/Mobile E-Commerce Transactions”, The Int. Conf. on Communications, Internet and Information Technology (CIIT’03), pp. 238-241, Arizona, USA, 17th -19th Nov. 2003.
  
  
• W. Adi, Ali Mabrouk, Haykel Gharaieb, Ali Al-Qayedi, “Secure Mobile Equipment Identification and Mutual Authentication”, Workshop on Security of Information Technologies (WSTI’03), Algeirs, Dec 8-10 2003
  
  
• A. Al-Qayedi, R. El-Khazali, A. Zahro and S. Al-Shamsi, “Secure Centralised Mobile and Web- based control system using GPRS with J2ME”, The 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Sharjah, UAE, 14th – 17th Dec, 2003.
  
  
• Wael Adi, Ali Mabrouk , Heykel Ghraieb , Ali Al-Qayedi, “Secure mobile equipment identification and mutual authentication” The IEEE International Conference on Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (Setit2004), Susa Tunisia, 15th – 20th March 2004
  
  
• W. Adi, A. Al-Qayedi, Abdulkarim AlZarouni, Ali Mabrouk, “Secured Muti-Identity Mobile Infrastructure and Offline Mobile-Assisted Micro-Payment Application”, The IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’04), Atlanta, Georgia, USA 21st – 25th March 2004.
  
  
• Ali Mabrouk, A. Al-Qayedi, W. Adi, Ahmed Zahro, “Combined Web/Mobile Authentication for Secure Web Access Control”, The IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’04), Atlanta, Georgia, USA 21st – 25th March 2004.
  
  
• Wael Adi, Ali Al-Qayedi, Khalid Negm, Ali Mabrouk, Sarhan Musa, “Secure Mobile Device Software Update over IP Networks”, IEEE SoutheastCon 2004, Greensboru, North Carolina, March 26th – 28th 2004.
  
  
• W. Adi, H. Shariff , Ali Dawood, A. Mabrouk, “Fuzzy Ring Arithmetic and Cryptographic Schemes”. The 2004 Mathematics day, American University of Sharjah, April 1st, 2004
  
• W. Adi, Ali Dawood, A. Mabrouk; “High Speed Robot Vision Authentication”, Mechatronic Conference, 2nd AUS International Symposium on Mechatronics, AUS-ISM05 Sharjah , 19-21 April 2005.
  
  
• W. Adi, Ali Mabrouk, K. Negm and Ali Al-Qayedi, “Mobile Assisted Secured Payment System”, International Symposium on Telecommunications IST2005, Shiraz, Tehran, 10-12 Sept. 2005.
  
  
• W. Adi, Ali Dawood, A. Mabrouk, “ Multi-level signature for mobile image authentication”, International symposium on telecommunications (IST2005), pp.849-854, Shiraz-Iran, September 2005.
  
  
• Yahya Belghuzooz and Ali Al-Qayedi, “Enhancing LSB Steganography Against Steganalysis Attacks Using Combinational LSBs”, the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications SIGMAP2007, Barcelona , Spain, 28 – 31 July 2007
  
  
• M. Al Baloshi and M. Al-Mualla, “A DCT-Based Watermarking Technique for Image Authentication,”' In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2007), Amman, Jordan, 13-16 May, 2007. pp. 754-760.
  
  
• M. Al-Mualla, “Content-Adaptive Semi-Fragile Watermarking for Image Authentication,” In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS 2007), Marrakech, Morocco, 11--14 December, 2007, pp. 1256-1259.

• Ali Al-Qayedi, Fundamentals of Enterprise Network Security, Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA), April 2003.
  
  
• M. E. Al-Mualla, “Digital Watermarking and Information Hiding”, Presentation, Society of Engineers, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, October 1, 2003.
  
  
• H. Al-Ahmad and M. E. Al-Mualla, “Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking”, Presentation, Middle East IT Security Conference (MEITSEC2003), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 4-8 October 2003.
  
  
• Ali Al-Qayedi, How do Hackers Hack?: Police College, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Jan, 2004
  
  
• H. Al-Ahmad and M. E. Al-Mualla, “Watermarking: Introduction and New Developments”, Presentation, Middle East IT Security Conference (MEITSEC2004), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 11-16 December 2004.
  
  
• Ali Al-Qayedi, Fighting Cyberterrorism, Police College, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Jan, 2005
  
  
• Ali Al-Qayedi, Information Security on the Internet, Police College, Abu Dhabi, UAE, May 2005.
  
  
• Ali Al-Qayedi, Online Privacy: "Who's Watching you on the Net?!!", one day workshop, Etisalat University College, May, 2006
  
  
• H. Al-Ahmad, Information Hiding and Watermarking, Two days short course, UAE, 2007