RSA bribed to the tune of millions by the NSA

News that the NSA had requested the RSA to implement backdoors in their encryption has been known since September . Recently however it has come to light that the NSA bribed the RSA to the tune of $10million for these flaws to be kept in. Reuters reported on this Friday, citing that: “Undisclosed until now was […]

RSA Final keynote

Well I must say I learned a lot about trying to blog the live from a conference and have a much higher respect for those that do this day to day. I liked it but was unprepared wireless was crappy, going through the phone drained it (did have it chained to laptop and that worked […]

RSA software defined data center is turning security on its head

Software defined data center =sddc Software defined security = sds Ssdc abstract the hardware and do everything from within software. The compute storage and network have to be extended across multiple boundaries. Security expands all three. Adding the components on the right (ie security) extends the virtualization time from minutes to days – so how […]

The future of endpoint security

Ok so next time I have to remember to leave enough time to take a decent lunch. I had to miss a vendor presentation because I didn’t schedule myself a lunch break. Now it’s back on pace with the 1:10 panel discussion – the future of endpoint security. So what is the first thing I […]

My RSA schedule

To hopefully let my readers in on what is upcoming I wanted to share my RSA schedule so you know what I am attending in case it interests you and you had questions:   For the rest of today: Crypto panel – too fast to keep up so will post some early stuff online later […]

RSA Keynote Francis deSouza

Francis deSouza Group President Products/Services Symantec – Building a higher level of security intelligence. Start out with a tale of an breach – and identifying the difference between good guys and bad guys the asymmetic difference between them. Reference some new publications and Stuxnet 0.5 (evidence of a possible precursor to Stuxnet). paraphrasing here – […]

RSA Keynote Scott Charney

So I hope Art’s blog made since – it is my first attempt at live blogging. Note you can also follow me on twitter for photos of RSA if you are interested. Next up is Scott Charney Corporate VP of TwC (trustworthy computing) from Microsoft – Making a case for securit optimization. He is speaking to […]

RSA Keynote Art Coviello

First up Arthur Coviello – Executive Vice President  EMC – Big Data Redifenes Security. Hopefully it wont be another big data buzz word talk. we will see.  Tie into the “we are the champions” song. Good quote “although we may not be winning we aren’t loosing either”. “2012 break out year of big data” – […]