Charlie Kaufman is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM, where he is Chief Security Architect for Lotus Notes and Domino. Previously, he was the Network Security Architect at Digital Equipment Corporation. He chaired the IETF's Web Transaction Security working group and currently serves on the IAB, the IETF's architecture board.
He holds more than 20 patents in the fields of computer security and computer networking, as well as a bachelor's degree from Bates College and a master's degree from Dartmouth College, both in mathematics.