Gerold Hubner

Gerold Huebner, Chief Product Security Officer (CPSO) at SAP AG , owns SAP's Product Security Strategy and is the legal advisor for assuring right data protection functionalities in SAP applications. Mr. Huebner authoritatively drives the Security Development Lifecycle Processes at SAP across all development units. In his role as CPSO he is the guiding Chief Expert on all product security topics including SAP's internal Product Standard for Security, static code analysis and testing practices, security awareness and security development trainings, security research and security response.

Mr. Huebner is a member of  the board of directors at SAFCode, an international industry cooperation driving best practices for secure product development.

Mr. Huebner's accomplishments before SAP include 11 years with Microsoft in numerous strategic engagements wherein as a member of the Corporate Trustworthy Computing Team he represented the company as a Government Security Director, internationally. Before joining Microsoft Mr. Huebner was a public officer at the data protection supervisor for the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Mr. Huebner has a degree in law and has specialized on data protection and security.