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Education:
- Ph.D. student at the ISG within RHUL since Oct. 2005 and until now…
- M.Sc. in Information Security (with distinction) from RHUL in 2005..
- B.Sc. in Computer Sciences from KSU in Saudi Arabia in 2002..
- (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)  

Memberships & Affiliations:
- Associate Member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP), UK
- Member of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), USA
- Member of the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (COEIA), KSA  

Career:
Worked in many places (SAMA and MoI in Saudi Arabia, and IRIS in Malaysia) before switching to academic career as an Instructor in Imam Muhammed Ibn Saud University in KSA.  

Current research interests are: Identity Management and Federation, Single Sign-On, Privacy and Secure Web-Based Protocols…  

List of Publications:  

- W. A. Alrodhan and C. J. Mitchell, ‘Addressing privacy issues in CardSpace‘ (pdf), in: Proceedings of IAS’07, Third International Symposium on Information Assurance and Security, Manchester, UK, August 2007, IEEE Computer Society (2007), pp.285-291.  

- W. A. Alrodhan and C. J. Mitchell, ‘A Client-side CardSpace-Liberty Integration Architecture‘ (pdf), in: Proceedings of IDTrust’08, the 7th symposium on Identity and trust on the Internet , NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, March 2008, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 283 , pages 1-7.  

- W. A. Alrodhan and C. J. Mitchell, ‘A Delegation Framework for Liberty‘ (pdf), in: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Advances in Computer Security and Forensics (ACSF’08), Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, 10 – 11 July, 2008; pages 67-73.  

- W. A. Alrodhan and C. J. Mitchell, ‘Improving the Security of CardSpace’ (pdf), EURASIP Journal on Information Security, Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 167216, 8 pages, doi:10.1155/2009/167216.  

- W. A. Alrodhan and C. J. Mitchell, ‘Enhancing User Authentication in Claim-Based Identity Management’ (pdf), in: Proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, CTS 2010, Chicago, Illinois, USA, pages 75-83. IEEE, 2010.  

- H. Al-Sinani, W. A. Alrodhan, and C. J. Mitchell, ‘Liberty-CardSpace Integration for CardSpace Users’ (pdf), in: Proceedings of the ninth symposium on Identity and Trust on the Internet , IDTrust 2010, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA, pages12-25. ACM, 2010.  

- M. H. Almeshekah and W. A. Alrodhan, ‘Why did Microsoft Passport fail, and how good is the CardSpace solution?’, to be presented in the 4th Saudi International Conference (SIC’10), Manchester, UK.  

Previous Talks & Presentations:
- A delegation framework for Liberty, 2008. Click here.
- A client-side CardSpace-Liberty integration architecture, 2008. Click here.
- Addressing privacy issues in CardSpace, 2007. Click here.
- Computer Sciences Vs. Information Systems, 2004. Click here.