As chief security architect for BEA Systems, Paul Patrick is responsible for the overall security product strategy at BEA. He plays a key role in driving the design and implementation of security functionality across all of BEA’s products, and is the architect for BEA’s new enterprise security infrastructure product, WebLogic Enterprise Security. Prior to becoming chief security architect, Paul was the lead architect of BEA’s ObjectBroker CORBA ORB and co-architect of WebLogic Enterprise (now Tuxedo). He is also the author of several patent applications as well as industry publications and a book on CORBA.