San Jose, CA, December 3rd, 2008

The Security Consortium, a leader in security services and consulting, today announced that it has appointed Geoffrey Strongin as a Trusted Advisor, effective immediately. By joining TSC’s council of Trusted Advisors, Geoffrey will actively lead and supervise senior team members for client projects and engagements.

"Geoff is an industry renowned and respected expert in the areas of virtualization, trusted computing, platform security and microprocessor architecture. By joining our team, he significantly strengthens and expands our current security and product design practice," said Mark Kadrich, TSC’s President and CEO. “He is also the ideal resource to help clients who are either evaluating or deeply immersed with the complex and intersecting challenges of Cloud Computing, virtualization and security.”

Geoffrey Strongin was most recently an AMD Fellow and served as AMD’s Chief Platform Security Architect. In this role he contributed to the definition of security features that were incorporated into AMD’s processors and supporting platforms. Geoffrey was also a founding board member of the Trusted Computing Group which is dedicated to bringing trustworthy computing to the endpoint.

An award winning designer and inventor with over 60 patents, Geoffrey’s outside interests include serving as co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee and being a Member of the Board of Trustees of XDI.ORG, a non-profit public-trust organization responsible for overseeing and administering XDI-based global services.

About The Security Consortium:
The Security Consortium is a leading provider of security test, research, counsel and leadership services. As independent experts on network security products, applications and research, they maintain a security product knowledge base that provides insight into innovative products and trends while monitoring the track record of companies, investors, and executive staff.

Bringing together best-in-breed security experts from around the world, TSC's consortium of expertise is a strategic resource for bringing trust, integrity and assurance to products and IT operations.

TSC is a privately held company, founded in 2007 and based in San Jose California.