Brian Berger Quotations

We are delighted Nortel will bring its networking expertise to TNC and plans to support the open specification in its products. Nortel joining the efforts of TNC helps to further accelerate the adoption of the open security specification in the industry and benefits customers by providing interoperable products across multiple product lines.

The platform integrity feature available with Wave's Embassy technology is one of the industry's first solutions designed to provide TNC products with the strong authentication capabilities of a TPM. Embassy delivers key identity capabilities for the network authentication of users and machines as well as important integrity capabilities for the collection of data necessary to determine the health of a particular PC prior to network access.

Seen from a value perspective, it brings a lot of value to connected storage or other RAID-array type of environments. Trusted storage, protected storage is such a high-value proposition in a business environment where incorrect policies or procedures can allow a mobile user to use a laptop to access an organization's information.

The one thing is that they haven't had a whole lot of coaching. So it's kind of like when you say something they eat it up.

It's just an incredible group. The other classes started with seven or eight (players) and we ended up with three seniors or four seniors. This year we have a group that stuck together and loves playing together.

It's an interesting use model, delivering content in a protected way where the content owner or the application owner distributes that content or wares using strong authentication, if they're not giving it away for free.

It's important to work, but it is not OK when work takes away from education.

It tells them those days are over. We're headed in a different direction and it's going to get better.

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.