Francisco Rocha is a second-year PhD student with the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests include systems security, software security, and security architectures. His latest work focuses on developing prevention techniques that guarantee memory confidentiality and integrity for cloud consumers in the presence of malicious insiders in cloud computing. Francisco holds an MSc in Information Technology - Information Security (MSIT-IS) from the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.