Dr. Mortada Asaad Gani Al-Banna
Lecturer
Teaching Areas 
  • Security (Information security, Cloud Security, Cyber Security)
  • Project Management
  • Data Science
  • Web Services
  • School/Department: IT
    Qualifications: 
  • Doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering (UNSW Australia)
  • Master in Computer Engineering (Nahrain University)
  • Bachlor is Computer Engineering (Nahrain University)
  • Research Areas 
  • Crowdsourcing Cyber Security
  • Brief Bio
    Morty is a security professional and academic with over 12 years of experience in Information Technology and cyber security. Passionate about researching innovative methods to raise awareness about cyber security (gamification, interactive workshops, cognitive services). Eager to identify and solve challenging problems, design new systems, and collaborate with brilliant people. Morty works within the Business Information Security Team in Deloitte Global, where he focus on solutions secure design. Morty also teaches information security course in KOI and data service engineering course in UNSW.
    Publications
  • Al-Banna, M., Benatallah, B., Schlagwein, D., Bertino, E. and Barukh, M.C., 2018. Friendly Hackers to the Rescue: How Organizations Perceive Crowdsourced Vulnerability Discovery. In PACIS (p. 230).
  • M. Al-Banna, B. Benatallah and M. C. Barukh, "Software Security Professionals: Expertise Indicators," 2016 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2016, pp. 139-148, doi: 10.1109/CIC.2016.030.
  • Al-Banna, M., Benatallah, B., Barukh, M.C., Bertino, E. and Kanhere, S., 2021. Crowdsourcing Software Vulnerability Discovery: Models, Dimensions, and Directions. In Web Information Systems Engineering–WISE 2021: 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, October 26–29, 2021, Proceedings, Part I 22 (pp. 3-13). Springer International Publishing.