The Edge of Glory? Why Service Providers Don’t Have to be “Dumb Pipes”
The morning of September 11, 2001, I was two blocks from the White House in the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Washington, D.C. I was preparing to moderate a press conference by cyber security pioneer Wave Systems announcing their latest solution for enabling truly trusted communications. Watching TV in the hotel coffee shop we saw the first plane hit the World Trade Center and the ensuing horror. Someone rushed in and said, “I just came across the 14th Street Bridge and saw a plane go into the Pentagon. We are under attack!”