DR MUHAMMAD MANSHAD SATTI

Dr. Muhammad Manshad Satti is a founder and group CEO of IT butler e-services. He has received B.E (Elec.) and M Eng. (Telecom) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, and PhD (Comp Eng) from Deakin University Melbourne Australia.

Dr. Satti is highly qualified and technical leader in his domain. He has over twenty five years of industrial experience in Electronics, IT and Telecoms. Prior to the founding of IT Butler e-Services an IT Services Company in 2003 (in Sydney), he was the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Australia's largest corporate telecom where he developed Telecom security risk assessment, security strategies and complex design for dedicated hosting, collocation, e-commerce and online businesses. During this tenure he designed Australia's first Defense Signals Directorate (DSD) approved, Highly Protected Internet gateway integrated with Tier-4 data centre for Australian federal government online services. He has been engaged in research and development at the leading R & D Security research Laboratory, studying on Intrusion Detection Systems and Data mining techniques for 3-tier security architecture.

He obtained his doctoral degree from Deakin University, Australia, majoring in ICT Security management systems and advance detection methods. He has authored more than twenty five publications on ICT Security and conducted over 40 international lectures and seminars. Dr. Satti has been associated with the US based HONET research group since 2004, and he is currently assisting the National Science Foundation (USA) for organizing HONET conferences in Middle East and Asia. He was the co-chair and host of HONET 2007 in Dubai and co-chair international for HONET 2008 in Penang, Malaysia.

Dr. Satti leads the information security special interest group (ICT-SIG) at National IT Development and Promotion Unit (NIDU) under the federal ICT Ministry Islamabad, Pakistan. He is a member of IEEE, the Institute of Engineers Australia (MIE Aust) and earned a Chartered Engineer (CEng.) status. Dr. Satti is listed at the National Professional Register (NPR) in Australia for IT, Telecom and Electrical Engineering chapters.

His research interests are on Data mining, DPI, LIMA, Correlations and advance Detection systems, used for mitigating future DOS / DDOS attacks on the Internet and Corporate networks, where ISPs are most commonly victims of such attacks.

In addition to his rich engineering career, Dr. Satti holds a Bachelor degree in Law and a Masters degree in Political Science and International Relations. He is a Bar member at High Courts and is pursuing for Cyber crimes Solicitor in future.

Dr. Satti is an active research member of IEEE and National Science Foundation (NFS) and acted as the Co-Chairman in HONET 2013 conference which was held in Cyprus on Oct. 2013. He worked on Location Base Services (LBS) for Mobile Banking and a telecom portal for Value Added Services (VAS) for GSM operators.

The Election Commission of Pakistan has appointed Dr. Muhammad Manshad Satti as a Convener of a Task Force on Internet Voting for Overseas Pakistanis on 19th April, 2018.

The I-Voting Task Force was mandated to technically assess the overall web-based automated system of internet voting for eligible Pakistani voters living abroad having National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis (NICOP) and valid machine-readable Pakistani passport as per the terms of reference (TOR) and will submit its report along with the recommendations.