Muktar Bello

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ABOUT MUKTAR BELLO

Investigator | Forensic Analyst | Academic | Trainer | Consultant | Subject Matter Expert | Muktar Bello is a Terrorism Prevention Expert with specialization in Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, Network Infrastructure Design and Cybercrime Investigation. He is currently a Lecturer with the University of Salford, Manchester UK. He was the Head of Quality Control and Assurance (QCA) of the Forensics Department at an elite Law Enforcement Agency in Nigeria. He is a Subject Matter Expert on Cybersecurity and Forensics with Knowtified.Similarly, he was the Academic Unit Head of Cyber-Crime, Cyber-Security and Forensics Studies of the post-graduate affiliated programmes with the University of Abuja (UNI-ABUJA), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (ABU-ZARIA), National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). He is a Visiting Lecturer at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) teaching and supervising BSc in Cybersecurity Students. He is also an Expert Forensics Consultant for the UNODC in the implementation of the EU-Nigeria-UNODC-CTED Partnership Project in assisting Nigeria to strengthen rule of law-based criminal justice responses to terrorism and violent extremism. He oversees a joint Military-Police-DSS workshop on the collection and preservation of electronic evidence in the field of war (Northeast Nigeria). He has successfully conducted investigations as an Analyst, Investigator and Expert Witness with various stakeholders.He has a PhD in Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Investigation from the University of Salford, UK. He holds a Master’s degree in Forensic Computing from Coventry University, UK and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology with concentration on Network Infrastructure Design and Administration from the American University in Dubai.Muktar was part of the team that implemented the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) IT component of the EU-funded project NGAS08. He represented his Agency for the setting up and establishment of the Nigerian National Computer Emergency Response Team (NG-CERT) center domiciled within the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). He was a key stakeholder in the setting up of standards for Digital and Computer Forensics in Nigeria by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).Dr. Bello is a professional member of the British Computer Society (BCS), UK Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS) and Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (ACIA). He is a certified ISO/IEC 27001 Senior Lead Implementer, ISO 9001 Lead Auditor and ISO/IEC 17025 Lead Assessor.