Ummer Iqbal received a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Dayananda Sagar College, Vishweriaya Technical University Bangalore, in 2007. He completed his M.Tech and Ph.D. from NIT Srinagar in 2015 and 2022. He joined NIELIT Srinagar/Jammu in 2010 as Scientist 'B'. He has accumulated a total experience of around 13 years, and his job profile includes teaching IT, Information Security, and Cyber Forensics at the P.G. level at NIELIT Srinagar/Jammu. His research & development interest is IoT security, Information Security and Open-source technologies.