Ibrahim Waziri Jr. graduated in 2016 with a Ph.D. in Information Security. He is currently a Senior Manager within the Azure Government & Mission Platform Engineering Team at Microsoft and an Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity at Marymount University in Washington, DC.
Ibrahim's expertise and research focus are on National Cybersecurity Strategies, Secure Digital Development, Cloud Infrastructure Security, Virtualization & Hypervisors, Network, Data & Application Security, Robotics Process Automation, Phishing & Malware Attacks, OSINT, and Cyber Risk Management for Defense, Intelligence and Health Sectors. His works have been published in various journals and conference proceedings.
Before Microsoft, Ibrahim worked as a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Deloitte U.S. At Deloitte, his work involved Cybersecurity implementations and risk management within U.S Treasury, Health, Defense, and Intelligence Communities. He has also worked as a Security Research Engineer for Apogee Research, a U.S Department of Defense (DoD)/DARPA research contractor in Arlington, VA. He also worked for the U.S International Trade Commission as a Cybersecurity Analyst and for RSA-EMC, the security division of Dell Technologies, as a Cyber Anti-Fraud Analyst working on cybercrimes Phishing and Malware attacks.
He is a member of various organizations like ISACA, IEEE, etc.