Dr. Khalid alghonaim

Dr. Khalid Al Ghonaim is CEO of Al Elm Company. He was with Al Elm since 2002. Previously he was full-time adviser to the Ministry of Defense and Aviation in year 2000-01. Dr Khalid has worked as Assistant Professor at King Saud University in Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences and as Teaching Assistant in King Saud University. He was visiting scholar in University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) and Carnegie Mellon University (United States). He has done BS in Computer Engineering from University of King Saud and went for Master in Computer Engineering and electricity from Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and electricity from Carnegie Mellon University.
Authentication in eServices
Flexibility and extensibility of authentication model used by eServices are essential factors for success of eServices implementation on a wide scale. Al-Elm as a secure provider of eServices to a large customer base has strived to implement secure and easy to use solutions for authentication considering the sensitivity of eServices provided and the obligation of safeguarding privacy of information. Security code, a simple second factor authentication that was implementation as a prelude to the current extensible authentication service ‘Nafath’ used to authenticate all Elm users and extensible to provide authentication solution to other organizations. Nafath is a dynamic multi-level authentication solution that manages the authentication base for individuals and can manage authentication for corporations through delegation of positions to registered individuals. Transaction authentication in Nafath has the capability to link to multiple components for authentication including the capability to utilize the National ID Smart Cards, Biometrics, and national PKI infrastructure.