DrAlmuthanna Alageel
Honorary Research Associate
Department of Computing - Faculty of Engineering
- Honorary Research AssociateDepartment of Computing - Faculty of Engineering
- Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Dr. Almuthanna A. Alageel is an Honorary Research Associate at Imperial College London, where he obtained his PhD in cybersecurity (2018 ~ 2024) under the supervision of Dr. Sergio Maffeis. He received his MSc in computer science from the University of Colorado, Denver, USA (2012 - 2014). Before that, he obtained his BSc in computer engineering from King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA (2004 - 2009).
He joined KACST, Computer Research Institute (CRI)-Security Group, in 2009, then affiliated with The National Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) in 2015 and The National Center for Cybersecurity (C4C) in 2016. He holds many professional certifications, including CISSP®, CISM®, CRISC®, CISA®, PMP®, CEH® (ECC97749552680), TOGAF® 9 Foundation and Certified Levels, COBIT® 5 Foundation (GR692001049AA), and ITIL® 4 Foundation.
His research interests include network security, system security, malware analysis, and adversarial machine learning.
Peer Reviews and PC Membership
Safe and Trustworthy AI (STAI)@ICLP, 2023 (PC Member)
International Journal of Information Security, Springer, 2022, 2023 (Reviewer)
Scientific Reports, Nature, 2023 (Reviewer)
Selected Publications
Alageel, Almuthanna, and Sergio Maffeis. "EarlyCrow: Detecting APT Malware Command and Control Over HTTP(S) Using Contextual Summaries." In The 25th Information Security Conference (ISC 2022).
DOI
Alageel, Almuthanna, and Sergio Maffeis. "Hawk-Eye: Holistic Detection of APT Command and Control Domains." In The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2021) - Computer Security Track, pp. 1664-1673.
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He joined KACST, Computer Research Institute (CRI)-Security Group, in 2009, then affiliated with The National Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) in 2015 and The National Center for Cybersecurity (C4C) in 2016. He holds many professional certifications, including CISSP®, CISM®, CRISC®, CISA®, PMP®, CEH® (ECC97749552680), TOGAF® 9 Foundation and Certified Levels, COBIT® 5 Foundation (GR692001049AA), and ITIL® 4 Foundation.
His research interests include network security, system security, malware analysis, and adversarial machine learning.
Peer Reviews and PC Membership
Safe and Trustworthy AI (STAI)@ICLP, 2023 (PC Member)
International Journal of Information Security, Springer, 2022, 2023 (Reviewer)
Scientific Reports, Nature, 2023 (Reviewer)
Selected Publications
Alageel, Almuthanna, and Sergio Maffeis. "EarlyCrow: Detecting APT Malware Command and Control Over HTTP(S) Using Contextual Summaries." In The 25th Information Security Conference (ISC 2022).
DOI
Alageel, Almuthanna, and Sergio Maffeis. "Hawk-Eye: Holistic Detection of APT Command and Control Domains." In The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2021) - Computer Security Track, pp. 1664-1673.
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FACULTY
- Faculty of Engineering
POSITION NAME
- Honorary Research Associate