[27] Sehnaoui was also featured on National Geographic in 2017 in the series Breakthrough,[28] produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, Season 2 Episode 2, Cyber-Terror.

This episode follows “white-hat” hackers Jayson Street, Darren Kitchen and Khalil Sehnaoui, security specialists who combine clever coding with “Mission: Impossible”-style “social engineering.” "[29][30] In 2019, Sehnaoui was featured amongst 70 information security professionals in a book called "Tribe of Hackers",[31] a collection of industry, career, and personal insights from cybersecurity luminaries.

[33] Sehnaoui was also prominently featured in a video series by The Guardian about privacy risks [34] and is often called upon to comment on recent Information Security news.

[37] Starting January 2016, there were reports that the Islamic State allegedly built a new Android app called Alrawi for exchanging encrypted messages,[38] based on claims from online counter-terrorism firm Ghost Security Group (GSG).

[39][40] Sehnaoui was one of the security specialists that helped debunk the myth of this tool, showing that it was just a "bad media mock-up to try and get some attention".