RSA Conference 2019: From Helen Mirren to a 1792 Penny, Cybersecurity Lessons Were Everywhere
Having attended most of the San Francisco RSA Conferences over the past decade, I can safely assert that they never fail to send me away with a full brain. Over the course of the week, there are always countless opportunities to learn, exchange, share, grow, and be blown away. I'm ... Read More
Why One Simple Concept Found its Way into Just About Every RSA Conference Keynote
From the opening keynote of this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco Tuesday morning, one emerging theme spreading through the cyber security industry was made abundantly clear. "We are not just protecting data and applications and infrastructures," RSA President Rohit Ghai said. "We are in the business of protecting trust." ... Read More
How the Vastly Improved Moscone Center Will Help the Future of Cyber Security
At every tech conference, executives of the host company talk about how the event is bigger and better than ever before. The RSA Conference is no exception, and this year, those claims are backed by a little something extra. You see, for the last four years, the conference's home, San ... Read More
RSA Conference Panel Agrees: Building a Diverse Staff Isn’t That Hard, But it Requires Intention
We hear constantly about the dearth of qualified cyber security professionals. Reports peg the number of unfilled positions in the U.S. as high as 3 million. Meanwhile, cybersecurity — and IT in general — continues to gain a deserved reputation for being mighty white, and mighty male. Maybe, at long ... Read More
As the RSA Conference Rages On, Equifax Faces the Music – Again
Equifax was back in the cyber security news cycle this week, and once again for all the wrong reasons. No, the company charged with storing, analyzing and judging consumer credit data did not suffer another breach. Rather, it was facing the music for its actions and inactions leading up to ... Read More
Driving Toward Safety: Automotive Industry Struggles With Security in Rolling Out Connected Vehicles
Connected cars are here, but a recent study suggests they may not be ready. The problem? Security, of course. Research from The Ponemon Institute indicates that 84 percent of those surveyed from the automotive industry are concerned that software security is not keeping pace with the evolving technologies automakers are ... Read More
What Does the Near Future of Cyber Security Look Like? A Roomful of RSAC Attendees Considered That, and Here Are the Takeaways
Predicting the future is tricky business. While we're less than six years from the year 2025, attempting to forecast what the cyber security landscape will look like by then requires a combination of experience, insight, and pure conjecture. That didn't stop a roomful of security pros from doing just that ... Read More
How Comcast Made Quick Work of Adopting DevSecOps
Comcast is not what one would consider a startup, yet it's been able to move as nimbly as one in an effort to refine one part of its business: software development. Until about a decade ago, software was pretty much an afterthought to the telecommunications giant. Today, however, software is ... Read More
Early Stage Entrepreneurs Face Panel of VCs in First-Ever Launch Pad Session at RSAC
RSA Conference Program Chairman Hugh Thompson has always had a sense of the dramatic, and he had no problem pulling out the hyperbole to kick off the inaugural Launch Pad event at the RSA Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. As he introduced the session, in which three early stage entrepreneurs ... Read More
Security’s Most Pressing Problems Get Fresh Looks From Startups in RSA Conference’s Innovation Sandbox Competition
Every year, a few thousand early-arriving RSA Conference attendees queue up to get a good seat for what has become a fabulous conference kick off: the annual Innovation Sandbox competition. A carefully selected lineup of 10 tantalizing cyber security startups square off against each other in a series of three-minute, ... Read More