Biju Issac obtained his BEng degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bharathiar University, India where he was involved in a project "Data Communication through Modems", and he designed and built modems for digital communication. He later completed his Masters in Computer Applications (Hons) in 1995, where he was involved in a massive automation project of a Fertilizer Plant (FACT, Cochin, India) and a versatile information system with RDBMS backend was developed on UNIX/Ingress environment. He is currently pursuing his part time PhD in Networking and Mobile Communications.

In his first job at the research lab in Indian Institute of Science (I.I.Sc), Bangalore, India under the Instrumentation Department, Biju worked on Tomography Imaging algorithms in C language, making it compatible with TMSC40 parallel processors in SPOX environment to speed up the processing. He studied the UNIX internals then. Later he worked as a lecturer and system administrator that exposed him to real-time computer networking in UNIX, Windows and Netware, where he picked up his interest in Computer Networks. He is an IBM certified Lotus Professional and Sun Certified Java Instructor. He has written articles under the 'Dare to be a Professional' column of a local newspaper.

He has performed analysis of the IEEE802.11(b/g) WLAN and its security issues (WEP/RADIUS, Wardriving, Packet analysis etc). He has also conducted studies on various network attacks and security loopholes exploitable by hackers, and is currently investigating security issues of IPv6 networks.