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Articles by Manish Mehta
Manish Mehta is Chief Security Architect at Volterra Edge Services, CA. In the past, he has worked at Netflix, Cryptography Research Inc., and other SF bay area companies designing and developing solutions around secure bootstrapping, authentication (service and user), and authorization for cloud-native infrastructure. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science (Cryptography) from Univ. of Missouri - Kansas City and has authored several patents, research, and conference publications.
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