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After the disruption caused by the last-minute cancellation of Mobile World Congress, there were some mutterings as to whether RSA Conference 2020 would still happen. A focus topic for RSA Conference 2012, the underlying concepts continued to mature, as more organizations moved into cloud services over the coming years.
Women appearing on the RSA keynote stages this year included, among others, cryptography expert and blockchain fan Tal Rabin; Katie Arrington, the Pentagon's CISO of acquisitions, discussing Huawei; Jessica Barker talking about the psychology of fear and trying to blame users; computer scientist and human factors expert Celeste Paul of the National Security Agency; coordinated vulnerability disclosure queen Katie Moussouris; and Wendy Nather of Duo Security - now part of Cisco - who sadly wasn't allowed to arrive on the opening morning's keynote stage via skateboard. RSA went ahead despite mounting concerns over the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the severe acute respiratory syndrome COVID-19.
Joseph Krull, an analyst with Aite Group, recommends that vendors at RSA Conference should focus on how they integrate with the life of a CISO, rather than fixing point solutions. Why vendors should focus on what problems their solutions are solving;.
One of the highlights of the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco is the opening keynote session that gathers together a world-class panel of cryptography experts to discuss and debate today's top cybersecurity issues. This year's panelists included the first two letters of the RSA cryptosystem - MIT professor Ronald Rivest and Weizmann Institute professor Adi Shamir; Whitfield Diffie, who helped create the pioneering Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol; Tal Rabin, an expert in cryptography and network security - including digital signatures and secure online communications; and Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University professor known for his data de-anonymization work.
We decided to gather some feedback from the attendees, journalists, and security experts involved in RSA 2020 to understand the most recent cybersecurity trends after this milestone event. Qualys Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, unveiled its new flagship product VMDR at RSA 2020.
Ghai is president of RSA, which focuses on helping customers manage digital risk through business-driven security solutions. He is responsible for all aspects of the business and accelerating growth by setting the strategic direction and driving operational execution.
More than 36,000 attendees, 704 speakers and 658 exhibitors gathered at the Moscone Center last week to explore the Human Element in cybersecurity through hundreds of keynote presentations, track sessions, tutorials, seminars and special events. "Our mission is to connect cybersecurity professionals with diverse perspectives and backgrounds to inspire new ways of thinking and push the industry forward," said Linda Gray Martin, Senior Director and General Manager, RSA Conference.
Healthcare industry at greatest risk of data breachThe healthcare industry has significantly more exposed attack surfaces than any other industry surveyed, according to Censys's research findings of cloud risks and cloud maturity by industry, revealed at RSA Conference 2020. Attackers probing for vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers, is yours one of them?CVE-2020-0688, a remote code execution bug in Microsoft Exchange Server that has been squashed by Microsoft in early February, is ripe for exploitation and could become a vector for ransomware groups in coming months, warns cybersecurity researcher Kevin Beaumont.
SECURITI.ai was selected winner of the fifteenth-annual RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest and named "Most Innovative Startup" by a panel of leading venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and industry veterans. Its PRIVACI.ai solution automates privacy compliance with patent-pending People Data Graphs and robotic automation.
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