Patrick Hildenbrand

SAP AG

Patrick Hildenbrand is Product Manager for security at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany. In his team he is responsible for the gathering of customer requirements and the roll-out of product information referring to security. He focuses on authentication, web services, network and infrastructure issues and the SAP WebAS Java Engine. Patrick Hildenbrand joined the product management team in the beginning of 2003. He has great knowledge about the operation of SAP and non-SAP infrastructures as a result of his experiences in the design and support of the system infrastructure at SAPHosting where he worked for close to 3 years. He started his ""business live"" at IBM Research in the IBM European Networking Center in 1991 where he worked on Network and Systems Management topics. Starting in 1995, he worked as a Security Consultant and Security Analyst at IBM Emergency Response Services for more than 5 years."