Bio

I'm associate professor at Zayed University. Between 2014 and 2019, I was associate professor at the university of Toulouse and a member of the SIERA research group at IRIT Laboratory. My research topics include trust management, PKIs, Access Control, OS security and security requirement engineering. Between 2007 and 2011, I led a research project that defined a new trust model for X.509 standard, by adding a new entity called Trust Broker. This is now included in the 2016 edition of the X.509 standard. I also participated with other researchers from UK and France in the implementation of the first proof of concept verifiable credential system. Very recently, I conducted a new research project that proposed a new command called sr (switch role) that intends to replace the command sudo in Linux environment (more information can be found here https://github.com/SamerW/RootAsRole).

Office

Abu Dhabi Campus, MF2-0-037

Phone:

3669

Email:

Ahmad.Wazan@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

CyberSecurity, Operating System, Networking

Research and Professional Activities

Research Area(s)

Trust Management, Access Control, Security requirement Engineering

Refereed journal papers

Romain Laborde, Arnaud Oglaza, Ahmad Samer Wazan, François Barrère, Abdelmalek Benzekri

A situation-driven framework for dynamic security management

In : Annals of Telecommunications, Springer, Vol. 74 N. 3-4, p. 185-196, 2019.

Ahmad Samer Wazan, Romain Laborde, David W. Chadwick, François Barrère, Abdelmalek Benzekri, Mustafa Kaiiali, Adib Habbal

Trust Management for Public Key Infrastructures: Implementing the X.509 Trust Broker

In : Security and Communication Networks, Wiley, Vol. Volume 2017, 2017.

Yusuf Idris Muhammad, Mustafa Kaiiali, Adib Habbal, Ahmad Samer Wazan, Auwal Sani Ilyasu

A secure data outsourcing scheme based on Asmuth–Bloom secret sharing

In : Enterprise Information Systems, Taylor & Francis Online, janvier 2016.

Papers in refereed conference proceedings

Romain Laborde, Arnaud Oglaza, Rémi Venant, Ahmad Samer Wazan, David W. Chadwick, François Barrère, Abdelmalek Benzekri

Know Your Customer: Opening a New Bank Account Online Using UAAF (short paper)

In : IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2020), Las Vegas, USA, 10/01/2020-13/01/2020, 2020 (à paraître) (Best demo award runner up).

Romain Laborde, Arnaud Oglaza, David W. Chadwick, Rémi Venant, Ahmad Samer Wazan, François Barrère, Abdelmalek Benzekri

A User-Centric Identity Management Framework based on the W3C Verifiable Credentials and the FIDO Universal Authentication Framework (regular paper)

In : IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2020), Las Vegas, USA, 10/01/2020-13/01/2020, IEEE : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, janvier 2020 (à paraître).

Romain Laborde, Sravani Teja Bulusu, Ahmad Samer Wazan, François Barrère, Abdelmalek Benzekri

Logic-based Methodology to Help Security Architects in Eliciting High-Level Network Security Requirements (regular paper)

In : ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2019), Limassol, Cyprus, 08/04/2019-13/04/2019, ACM SIGAPP, p. 1610-1619, 2019.

Sravani Teja Bulusu, Romain Laborde, Ahmad Samer Wazan, François Barrère, Abdelmalek Benzekri

A Requirements Engineering-based Approach for evaluating Security Requirements Engineering Methodologies (regular paper)

In : International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2018), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 16/04/2018-18/04/2018, Vol. 738, Springer, Advances in Intelligent Systems & Computing, p. 517-525, 2018.

Sravani Teja Bulusu, Romain Laborde, Ahmad Samer Wazan, François Barrère, Abdelmalek Benzekri

Applying a Requirement Engineering Based Approach to evaluate the Security Requirements Engineering Methodologies. (short paper)

In : ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2018), Pau, France, 09/04/2018-13/04/2018, ACM : Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1316-1318, 2018.

Sravani Teja Bulusu, Romain Laborde, Ahmad Samer Wazan, François Barrère, Abdelmalek Benzekri

Which Security Requirements Engineering Methodology Should I Choose?: Towards a Requirements Engineering-based Evaluation Approach (short paper)

In : International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017), Reggio Calabria, Italy, 29/08/2017-01/09/2017, ACM : Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1-6, 2017.

Sravani Teja Bulusu, Romain Laborde, Ahmad Samer Wazan, François Barrèrre, Abdelmalek Benzekri

Describing Advanced Persistent Threats Using a Multi-agent System Approach (short paper)

Dans : Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet 2017), Rio de Janeiro, 18/10/2017-20/10/2017, IEEE : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 1-3, 2017.

Ahmad Samer Wazan, Romain Laborde, David W. Chadwick, François Barrère, Abdelmalek Benzekri

TLS Connection Validation by Web Browsers: Why do Web Browsers still not agree? (regular paper)

Dans : IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications (COMPSAC 2017), Turin, Italie, 04/07/2017-08/07/2017, IEEE Computer Society, p. 665-674, 2017.