Marouane Balmakhtar
Northern Virginia Community College
Professor
Dr. Marouane (Mar1) Balmakhtar has been working in the Cybersecurity/Telco industry for over 13 years and in higher education for five years. He has been working in various roles related to higher education, Cybersecurity, technology development, product support and operations, engineering, and consulting. He is an adjunct professor of Cybersecurity at NOVA and works as a Solutions Architect in a small R&D group at a major U.S Telco operator working on innovative security and technology solutions. He teaches information and network security courses. He has a Doctor of Science in Information Assurance from the University of Fairfax. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech, a Master’s Degree in Information Security from the University of Fairfax, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Old Dominion University. He also holds multiple IT certifications such as CISSP and ITIL. Dr. Balmakhtar has over 20 U.S. patents (both pending and granted).