Amir Roknifard is a self-educated cyber security solutions architect with a focus on web application, network, and mobile security. He leads the research, development, and innovation at KPMG Malaysia and is a hobby coder and programmer who enjoys spending his time on educating people about privacy and security so that even ordinary people can have the required knowledge to protect themselves. He likes automation and developed an integrated platform for cyber defense teams so that it could take care of their day-to-day workflow from request tickets to final reports.

He has been part of many projects in governmental, military, and public sectors in different countries and has worked for banks and other financial institutions and oil and gas and telecommunication companies. He also has hours of lecturing on IT and information security topics on his resume and has reviewed several books in the realm of IT and security.

Amir also founded the Academician Journal, which aims to narrow the gap between academia and the information security industry. It tries to identify the reasons this gap occurs and analyze and address them. He picks up new ideas that are possibly able to solve the problems of tomorrow and develops them. That is why likeminded people are always welcome to suggest their ideas for publication or co-authoring a piece of research by contacting him at @roknifard.