Bob Blakley is a principal analyst for Burton Group, an IT research firm that specializes on technical analysis of enterprise infrastructure technologies. Formerly, he was chief scientist for Security and Privacy at IBM. Blakley served on the National Academy of Science's study group on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications. He was the editor of the OMG CORBA security specification, and is the author of "CORBA Security: An Introduction to Safe Computing with Objects", published by Addison-Wesley. He was also the editor of the Open Group's Authorization API specification and the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee's SAML specification effort.