Michael Waidner
IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Chief Technology Officer for Security
Michael Waidner received a Doctorate (PhD) in computer science from the University of
Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1991. In 1994, after a few years as researcher and lecturer at
the University of Karlsruhe, he joined IBM Research in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, where
he formed and led one of the most successful industrial security research teams
worldwide. Under his leadership the team made numerous fundamental contributions to
science and IBM's product and services portfolio, in areas such as cryptography, fault
tolerance in distributed systems, federated identity management, enterprise privacy
management, security governance and risk management.
In 2006, he moved from Switzerland to the U.S., and joined the IBM software group in
New York. In 2007, he led the creation of the IBM Security Architecture Board, which
has cross-IBM responsibility for architecture and technical strategy in security. Waidner
has been chairing this board since the beginning, and established it as the core of the
virtual cross-IBM security technology organization.
Waidner has authored or co-authored more than 110 scientific publications. In addition,
he is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, a Fellow of the IEEE, and an ACM
distinguished scientist.