RSA 2016 Topics and Focus
January 2016 – This year, the RSA Conference San Francisco returns to its traditional time slot of February. This year’s event has been updated to reflect not only the issues of the current business environment, but to make the take-away from the event more actionable on a short term basis. In the past, while the conference had sessions that provided a high degree of education to the attendees, the conference fell short on providing speakers with actionable solutions so the solutions could be quickly put in place in the real world, this has been changed.
The sessions and panels this year cover a wide range of topics. The traditional sessions of cryptography, governance and rick & compliance, security strategy, and cloud security/virtualization are still in place. This year a number of new tracks are making their appearance from a key topic perspective. Some of these are: technology law, analytics, privacy, mobile, incident response, application security, hackers & threats and industry experts. The Industry experts track supplements the Peer2Peer session that are still in place.
One of the other big issues being address is IoT security and the issues regarding securing this very wide ranging market. The IoT discussion will include securing automotive activities as they are both an IT device and an integrated platform/network.
The incidence reporting track deals with practical strategies for creating a response plan, acting on the plan, tracking the breech, along with determining the extent of the breech and when to contact authorities. A number of the sessions are dealing with the differences in North American and EU rules an interpretation.
The keynotes cover a large range of security issues. On Thursday the keynote titled – CSI: Cyber Panel: Security Dramas Arrive on the Small Screen. This panel has RSAC Curator Sandra Toms interviewing the show’s creator Anthony E. Zuiker, along with two cast members – Charley Koontz (Daniel Krumitz) and Shad Moss (Brody Nelson). The panel will discuss how they develop the show’s plot, how they respond to any industry criticism and what they hope to convey to the average viewer who may not be familiar with the nuts and bolts of infosecurity.
They have expanded the Learning Labs at the event this year. The Learning Labs are two-hour deep dive facilitator lead experiences. These are designed to immerse attendees in interactive exercises and discussions. To insure that all participants get a chance to work with the facilitator, each event time slot is limited to 50 participants.
