Prof. Elmarie Biermann

Professor Elmarie Biermann is the Director and Founder of the Cyber Security Institute in South Africa. Completing a BSc, BSc Hons (cum laude) and an MSc at the North West University, led to her obtaining a PhD in Computer Security at the University of South Africa. She boasts experience in both the academic and private sectors and have an extensive list of research and technical publications on international forums. She is an acknowledged speaker and keynote at conferences, seminars and workshops and are regularly invited as a specialist panellist on cyber-crime, cyber warfare and cyber intelligence.

She previously held an Adjunct Professorship at the French South African Institute of Technology in Cape Town to assist in growing Security as a research field in the Nanosatellite environment, and currently holds an Extraordinary Associate Professorship in the Department Military Strategy, Faculty of Military Sciences at the University of Stellenbosch.