AppSec-related Must-do Activities and Sessions at RSA 2020

by Surag Patel, Chief Strategy Officer on February 24, 2020

This year’s theme at RSA Conference 2020 is the Human Element. Fundamentally, what those of us do in the realm of cybersecurity goes beyond protecting our networks, applications, and systems; it’s about people protecting people.

Applications touch millions of people a day; they store and transmit huge amounts of data, so their reliability and availability are business critical. Data breaches and diminished system availability and performance can have a dramatic impact on the people using those systems as well as the information stored in those systems. The business repercussions, not to mention the impact on human lives, can be vast and pervasive.

When it comes to application security, developers can expend huge energy and time addressing vulnerabilities using old-school application testing technologies and processes. Instead of focusing on writing code to enable digital transformation, they find themselves bogged down in the mire of laborious vulnerability remediation. Security teams, at the same time, are frustrated because they lack transparent visibility across all applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) and fight through an onslaught of false positives.

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AppSec And the Human Element

Recognizing the impact on humans, Contrast Security offers a different approach by embedding security testing within the application. Developers can do what they do well—namely, code—and do not need to become security experts. Security teams know applications are protected from testing, to development, to production.

Recognizing the impact on humans, Contrast Security through our DevOps-Native AppSec Platform offers a different approach by embedding security testing within the application. Developers can do what they do well—namely, code—and do not need to become security experts. Security teams know applications are protected from testing, to development, to production.

Get in on the AppSec Conversation at the Contrast Booth

RSA offers humans involved in all cybersecurity aspects an opportunity to network, learn, and even be challenged. This coming week in San Francisco is invaluable for those of us who care about protecting our networks, applications, and endpoints from malicious cyberattacks.

Contrast is proud to be an RSA sponsor and has a great agenda scheduled for the event. Make sure to stop by our booth where we have experts who will be discussing topics such as:

How developers are embedding security into their applications to speed software development life cycles—including one enterprise that shaved 25% off of their development time to market.
Why security teams and developers should be concerned about the risks of using open source code—and how to mitigate those risks.
Strategies to deal with alert fatigue by getting smarter using RASP.
Security instrumentation is the future of software—the only means security and development teams can use to scale and meet business priorities and requirements.

A BOOTH ROCKING WITH COOL DRINKS AND PRIZES

This year, Contrast is going all out with a host of giveaways, cocktails, and raffles. Some of those attending will not want to miss include:

A custom “foam printed latte” for a special caffeinated pick-me-up to help them power through the day!

As a token of appreciation to booth visitors, we have mixologists on hand who will serve up our signature libation, “The Instrumentation,” on both Monday and Tuesday nights.

Attendees also need to stop by our booth and enter our raffle. Every day, we will raffle off a Smacircle electric bike. It was one of the honorees of the CES Innovation Awards—a prize best seen in person.

RSA Sessions on AppSec to Check Out

While we would like to think that attendees are only at the event to check us out, we know that they’re also there for other purposes. For attendees interested in AppSec, there are a number of sessions they will not want to miss. A few of the sessions we recommend checking out include:

Reality Check: The Story of Cybersecurity

Speaker: Rohit Ghai, President, RSA

Location: Moscone West Street Level

Date and Time: February 25, 8:10 AM to 8:30 AM

Learn more about Rohit and his presentation here.

Why Doesn’t the Security Industry Have a Mary Meeker-Style Report

Speaker: Shannon Lietz, Director, Intuit

Location: Moscone West 3004

Date and Time: February 25, 2:20 PM to 3:10 PM