MAKKAH: In a world where technology is advancing at lightning speed, companies and organizations facing the constant threat of security breaches are finding help from the most unlikely people.
While working on his postdoctoral research paper, Marwan Al-Bahr, a member of the teaching staff at Umm Al-Qura University’s College of Computer and Information Systems, discovered security vulnerabilities that threaten the privacy of some of the world’s largest companies.
“The discovery was made through some information security research I had undertaken as I started my Ph.D. through Bluetooth and its protocols,” Al-Bahr told Arab News.
“During the postdoctoral phase, I worked on websites and mobile applications, where I focused on the user’s privacy and security levels. I was able to understand how developers work, how data is provided and transferred from one page to another,” he said.