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RSA Yet another big brand has pulled out of RSA Conference, due to take place next week, amid the ongoing novel coronavirus panic. "We have decided not to participate in RSA Conference 2020 after careful consideration and discussions. We value our participation in industry events like RSA and greatly support the measures taken by event organizers to protect attendees," an AT&T spokesperson told The Register.
RSA As IBM's crew cancels their hotel rooms, Microsoft's infosec staffers are still set to attend the decades-old RSA conference and pulled the covers off a raft of security releases and previews for the event today. We spoke to Microsoft 365 Senior Director, Alym Rayani, about compliance and insider risk at last year's Ignite event.
As in years past, the event will kick off on Monday, with keynote speeches debuting Tuesday, featuring some of the biggest names in cybersecurity addressing today's hottest topics, technologies, conundrums and aspirations. Tuesday, Feb. 25 Reality Check: The Story of Cybersecurity : The conference keynotes launch with mystery acts, featuring musicians and typically a guest actor - Helen Mirren in 2019, John Lithgow in 2017 - followed by RSA President Rohit Ghai taking to the stage to officially launch the show.
"The Human Element" is the theme of RSA Conference 2020, but there are plenty of technology-rich topics in store for attendees, including session tracks that focus on election security, open source tools, product security and anti-fraud. "Every year is a unique experience," Britta Glade, director of content and curation for the conference, says in an interview with Information Security Media Group.
Dell Technologies on Tuesday said that it has agreed to sell its RSA Security unit to a private equity group for roughly $2.075 billion in cash. Under the terms of the agreement, a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board and AlpInvest Partners, will acquire RSA assets including RSA Archer, RSA NetWitness Platform, RSA SecurID, RSA Fraud and Risk Intelligence and the RSA Conference.
Dell Technologies has agreed to sell its RSA security division to private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in an all cash deal worth more than $2 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. Dell acquired RSA in 2016, along with VMware and Pivotal, as part of a blockbuster $67 billion deal for EMC, a company best known for its storage products.
Dell Technologies is flogging its infosec business RSA for $2.075bn as it tries to reduce its longstanding debt. "The transaction will further simplify our business and product portfolio. It also allows Dell Technologies to focus on our strategy to build automated and intelligent security into infrastructure, platforms and devices to keep data safe, protected and resilient."
Yes, new skills are needed, but the session will also demystify the approach by looking at detailed use cases of how to respond to AWS-specific security incidents. A computer security mindset is essential to understanding the security of complex technological systems.
IBM has withdrawn as a sponsor for next week's RSA Conference 2020 as worries over the coronavirus outbreak continue. "We learned today that IBM has made the decision to no longer participate in RSA Conference 2020 as a Platinum Sponsor," RSA Conference organizers say in a statement.
IBM has pulled out of annual security shindig RSA Conference, due to be held in San Francisco at the end of this month, to avoid its staff catching the novel coronavirus that's spreading worldwide. "The health of IBMers continues to be our primary concern as we monitor upcoming events and travel relative to Novel Coronavirus," Big Blue told The Register in a statement in the past hour.