Maryann Hondo is the security architect for emerging technology at IBM, concentrating on XML security. She is one of the coauthors of the WS-Security, Policy, Trust and Secure Conversation specifications announced by IBM and other business partners. Before joining the emerging technology group she managed the IBM Tivoli Jonah team (IETF PKIX reference implementation) and was security architect for Lotus e-Suite participating in the development of Java Security (JAAS).