M. Tariq Banday was born in Srinagar, India. He obtained hisM. Sc., M. Phil. and Ph. D. degrees in Electronics (Network Security) from the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India in 1996, 2008, and 2010 respectively. At present, he is working as Associate Professor in the same department. He is a senior member of IEEE, ACM, and CSI. He currently investigates a few government-sponsored research projects in network security. He has to his credit over 100 research publications in reputed journals and conference proceedings. His teaching and research interests include microprocessors & micro-controllers: architecture, programming, and interfacing; programming and problem solving, computer organization, design & architecture, network, internet, e-mail and web security, Internet of Things, data structures and database management systems.