Dr Iosif I. Androulidakis has served as Head of the Telephony Department in the Network Operations Center of the University of Ioannina. He has an active presence in the ICT security field having authored more than 60 publications (including 2 books) and having presented more than 100 talks and lectures in international conferences and seminars in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Lithuania, Slovenia, the United Arab Emirates, Romania, Latvia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Spain, Hungary, Ukraine, Estonia, Poland, Italy, Bulgaria, Luxembourg and Norway.

 His research interests focus on security issues in PBXs (private telephony exchanges) where he has more than 15 years of experience, as well as in mobile phones and embedded systems. Recent collaborations include Greek PTT’s Security & Fraud Control Division, the Greek Fiscal and Economic Investigation Service, the Greek Police, CEPOL, the European Public Law Center, theSoutheastern Europe Telecommunications & Informatics Research Institute, the Media and private security consulting firms.He was also awarded two patents from Greek Patent Office while another two are pending.

 Mr Androulidakis holds a BSc in Physics and a PhD and an MSc in Electronics for which he was awarded the Greek State’s Scholarships Foundation outstanding performance prize. He has also attended a wealth of seminars, conferences and meetings regarding ICT technologies from companies and institutes such as Alcatel, Cisco, Intracom, Bell Labs, Symbian, Sun Microsystems, MD5, Encode, KPMG, AIT, GRNET, NCSR-Demokritos, FORTH, Onassis Foundation and others.

 He is a member of IEEE (Technical Committee on Security & Privacy) and ACM(Special Interest Group on Security Audit & Control) as well as editor in ETASR, IJNCM and JDCTA journals. He has also acted as a reviewer in many journals including S&P and C&S and as a Chairman, Program Committee member and reviewer in many international conferences. Finally, he is a certified ISO9001:2000 (Quality Management System) and ISO27001:2005 (Information Security Management System) auditor and consultant.