He holds a doctorate of philosophy (Ph.D.) in law from IIUM after completed his dissertation on the law of information security in early 2010. He was trained at the University of Oxford, UK in 2008 under the Oxford Internet Institute's scholarship for the Web-science Summer Doctoral Programme. Having spent more than eight years of research and consultancy on cyberlaw and Internet policy, he consulted the Governments of Malaysia and Indonesia on issues such as cyber-security policy, wireless security policy, content regulation, Internet best-practices and the law on personal data protection. Sonny currently teaches Cyberlaw subject at postgraduate level in IIUM.