RSA Conference 2018 Closes 27th Year Bringing Top Information Security Experts Together to Debate Critical Cybersecurity Issues
April 20 2018 - 7:38PM
Business Wire
RSA Conference, the world’s leading information security
conferences and expositions, today concluded its 27th annual event
in San Francisco.
More than 42,000 attendees experienced keynote presentations,
peer-to-peer sessions, track sessions, tutorials, expo floors and
seminars during the course of the week focused on topics such as
artificial intelligence, data privacy, gamification, the history of
technology and innovation, among others. Records were set with the
number of exhibitors in attendance along with overall number of
sessions.
"The goal of RSA Conference is to bring the best content the
cybersecurity industry has to offer across numerous platforms,"
said Linda Gray Martin, Director & General Manager of RSA
Conference. "We succeeded, in a week filled with knowledge sharing,
collaboration and the exchange of innovative ideas among the
industry’s elite. In the process, we’re beginning the journey to
reach and educate a new audience through RSAC onDemand. We thank
everyone for making it such a special event once again and we’re
excited to further these conversations in the year ahead.”
RSA Conference 2018 highlights include:
- 17 keynote presentations, more than 700
speakers across 550+ sessions and more than 600 companies on the
expo floors.
- Hot session and seminar presentations
included:
- Early Detections of Malicious Activity
– How Well Do You Know Your DNS?; Merike Kaeo, CTO, Farsight
Security
- Foundations of Bitcoin, Blockchain and
Smart Contracts; Ben Jun, CEO, HVF Labs; Linda Xie, Co-Founder and
Managing Director, Scalar Capital
- GDPR Essential Seminar; Laura Koetzle,
VP, Group Director, Forrester; Ilias Chantzos, Senior Director EMEA
and APJ, Global CIP and Privacy Advisor Government Affairs,
Symantec
- Insights from NSA’s Cybersecurity
Threat Operations Center; David Hogue, Technical Direct, National
Security Agency
- Ransomware and Destructive Attacks
Seminar; Andrew Hay, CTO, LEO Cyber Security
- BigID was named “RSA Conference 2018’s
Most Innovative Startup” by the Innovation Sandbox’s judges’ panel
comprised of technology, venture and security industry thought
leaders.
- RSA Conference reached broader
audiences with the launch of onDemand, a new way for virtual
attendees to experience all RSAC has to offer for the first time.
- RSAC onDemand: Featured 18 sessions –
extending content to almost 1,700 individuals who would otherwise
not have experienced RSA Conference.
The 21st Annual RSA Conference Awards program highlighted the
work of five security professionals for excellence in humanitarian
service, information security, public policy and mathematics. This
year’s winners included:
- Tim Jenkin, The African National
Congress – Excellence in the Field of Humanitarian Service
- Michael Assante, Security Expert and
ICS Curriculum Lead, SANS Institute – Award for Excellence in the
Field of Information Security
- Professor Ran Canetti, Boston
University, and Professor Rafail Ostrovsky, UCLA – Award for
Excellence in the Field of Mathematics
- Admiral Michael Rogers, United States
Navy – Award for Excellence in the Field of Public Policy
RSAC Unplugged London will take place on June 7, 2018. RSA
Conference 2018 Asia Pacific & Japan takes place July 25-27,
2018 in Singapore while RSAC Unplugged Abu Dhabi is set for
November 14, 2018. RSA Conference 2019 takes place March 4-8, 2019
in San Francisco.
RSAC EXHIBITOR AND PARTNER QUOTES:
"RSAC 2018 was one of the most memorable ones for me. In my
conversations with visitors to the Carbon Black booth, I was
encouraged that security leaders are focused on creating a more
comprehensive and inclusive approach to cybersecurity. At the end
of the day, we’re all in this together with common adversaries.
While the media focus is often on the bad guys, RSAC 2018
demonstrated that product innovation makes this a great time to be
a good guy.”- Tom Kellermann, Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Carbon
Black
“In keeping with previous years, RSA Conference 2018 has raised
the bar in terms of the quality of participants and content, and we
congratulate RSAC on these accomplishments. At Check Point, we are
dedicated to providing exceptional support and enablement of our
customers and partners, wherever they may be. RSA Conference 2018
provided us with the perfect environment to do that. The
cyber-threat landscape is complex and evolving. Check Point is
committed to playing its part, as a member of the cyber security
community, to protect private and public enterprises, large and
small, from these damaging cyber-attacks.”- Peter Alexander, Chief
Marketing Officer, Check Point Software Technologies
“RSA Conference is the only event that brings security experts,
policy makers and executives from technology companies together in
a collegial environment to discuss how best to solve the security
challenges we face globally. It is a wonderful forum to help the
cyber security professional stay current. We are always
honored to assist by reviewing the most deadly attacks as a part of
the annual address and to provide NetWars as a fun engaging
environment for security professionals to test their hands-on,
technical skills.”-Ed Skoudis, Fellow at the SANS Institute
“This year’s RSA Conference has been a fantastic event for Trend
Micro. Our booth has been filled each day with security
professionals looking for a strategic partner to help them cut
through the industry noise. With attendees from around the world
coming to events like RSAC to learn more about topics ranging from
IoT threats, to cloud and DevOps security, to real-world
applications of machine learning, we have an opportunity to
leverage trusted voices to truly shape the conversations our
industry is having and ultimately better support our customers and
partners alike.”-Steve Quane, Executive Vice President, Network
Defense and Hybrid Cloud Security, Trend Micro
"We've been hearing how industrial IoT security is providing the
trusted foundation for a new wave of innovation and automation. At
RSAC 2018, our team has had so many great discussions about this
new vision for security and how emerging technologies, such as
blockchain and edge computing, can be deployed to protect machines,
applications and people."- Duncan Greatwood, Chief Executive
Officer, Xage Security
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About RSA Conference
RSA Conference is the premier series of global events where the
world talks security and leadership gathers, advances and emerges.
Whether attending in the U.S., the EMEA region, or the Asia-Pacific
region, RSA Conference events are where the security industry
converges to discuss current and future concerns and get access to
the people, content and ideas that help enable individuals and
companies to win, grow and do their best. It is the ultimate
marketplace for the latest technologies and hands-on educational
opportunities that help industry professionals discover how to make
their companies more secure while showcasing the most enterprising,
influential and thought-provoking thinkers and leaders in security
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