I was trained at the United States Military Academy, West Point and was commissioned as an Infantry Officer of a parachute battalion in the Malaysian Army. While in the United States, I attended the Air Assault School at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and the Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia. After 16 years of military service, I left to pursue my studies. I did my Masters of Computer Science by Research on Email Security and Encryption at Universiti Malaya. I have extensive field experience in the field of computer security, including stints in IT Security for the Malaysian Armed Forces Command and Control System and in Infrastructure Security Management at Commerce Dot Com Sdn Bhd. I am currently an Associate Professor at the Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia. I have won many awards for my R&D projects.