Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus is SVP Product Security at SAP, until recently he held the position of  Chief Security Officer. Before this, he was Head of the Product Management Team for Security at SAP, coordinating security technology, secure development processes and security response for all SAP applications. Before joining SAP he worked as a consultant for SECUDE GmbH and KOBIL Systems GmbH, as well as doing research work at the Institute of Experimental Mathematics at Essen University and at the Department for Theoretical Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Technology. He has a PhD in Number Theory. He is recognized as a thought leader in the security community, member of several security organisations such as the Information Security Forum or the International Security Management Association. He is member of the board of "TeleTrusT", a german non-profit organization for promoting secure electronic processes, member of the Permanent Stakeholders Group of the European Union's "European Network and Information Security Agency" as well as founding member of the "Application Security Industry Consortium". He currently co-organizes a Masters degree curriculum on "Security Management" at the Technical University of Brandenburg, Germany.