Ryma Abassi has obtained a PhD degree in ICT from the Higher School of Communication of Tunis (Sup’Com) in March 2010. She obtained a master degree in Telecommunication from Sup’Com  in December 2005 as well as an engineer diploma from the National Institute of Applied Science and Technology of Tunis (INSAT) in February 2004.

Since September 2010, Dr Abassi is an assistant professor in the Higher Institute of Technological Studies in Communication of Tunis where she is responsible of several courses for the network security option.

Dr Abassi’s actual research interests include security policies modeling, validation, verification and test, XACML, XML updates, trust management, etc.

Dr Abassi has published several papers in international journals and conferences.

1.      R. Abbassi and S. Guemara El Fatmi, “Executable Security Policies: Specification and Validation of Security Policies”, International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks (IJWMN), Vol 1, No 1, August 2009.

2.   R. Abbassi and S. Guemara El Fatmi, “A Novel Validation Method for Firewall Security Policy” Journal of Information Assurance and Security 4 (2009) 329-337.

3.   R. Abbassi and S. Guemara El Fatmi, “Dealing with Delegation in a Trust-based MANET”, In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Telecommunication, ICT 2013, Morocco.

4.    R. Abbassi and S. Guemara El Fatmi, “Delegation Management Modeling in a Security Policy based Environment”, In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software Science, SCSS 2012, Gammarth, Tunisia.

5.      R. Abbassi and S. Guemara El Fatmi, “A Trust based Delegation Scheme for Ad Hoc Networks” In Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems  CRISIS 2012, Cork, Ireland.