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Dr. Vangelis Gazis - IoT Security: A Standards’ Perspective

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Dr. Vangelis Gazis
Chief Architect IoT Security
Huawei Technologies
Dr. Vangelis Gazis
Evangelos (Vangelis) Gazis (PhD, MBA) is Chief Architect for IoT Security in Huawei’s Products and Solutions (P&S) organisation where he oversees the technology roadmap of common security capabilities for the IoT domain (i.e. IoT devices, IoT network, IoT gateways, and IoT cloud...
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