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RSA Conference 2017 and Beyond: Evolving Threat Landscape

Friends,

Our team had a wonderful time at the RSA Conference, the world’s leading
information security conferences and expositions, which concluded its 26th
annual event in San Francisco this month. A record number of more than
43,000 attendees experienced keynotes, peer-to-peer sessions, track
sessions, tutorials and seminars. We’ll have many highlights in next month’s
RSA Conference Trip Report by our Executive Producer.

Meanwhile, here are some things that caught they eye of our staff: UnifyID
was named “RSA Conference 2017’s Most Innovative Startup” by the Innovation Sandbox’s judges’ panel
comprised of technology, venture and security industry thought leaders.

As our future depends upon the cyber security skills of teens and college students entering our field,
which still remains underserved in the USA by at least 100,000 cybersecurity experts not yet in the
workforce but much needed, RSA launched some wonderful educational initiatives:

o RSAC CyberSafety Initiative: 1,300 attendees filled the Cyber Safety Village in Moscone
West throughout the week to learn more about the issues children and teens are
experiencing online including topics such as emotional responses to social media,
sexting, impact on sleep and how to manage online reputations.

o RSAC Security Scholar program: RSA Conference Security Scholar connects the
brightest up-and-coming cybersecurity students to leading experts, peers and conference
attendees. As the program enters its second year, RSA Conference expanded to include
more than 20 schools and 60 students.

o RSAC College Day: RSA Conference created College Day to help students find their
ideal career options through meeting both industry veterans and companies that are
looking for young, talented students to join their ranks. This year 600 students had
access to more than 50 sessions, a day in the life of a security expert panel, and met with
sponsors during an open house.

If you couldn’t attend, I recommend you follow this link, which leads to many
others: https://www.rsaconference.com/press/74/rsa-conference-2017-closes-with-record-
attendance loaded with rich infosec information. Until the next RSA Conference, we invite you to read on
and learn more in this Month’s edition of Cyber Warnings where we’re covering very hot topics such as
Ransomware, Password Audits, Risks in Compromized Credentials, Vulnerabilities including in the
Supply Chain and much more.

Let’s continue to share a wealth of information with each other to stay one step ahead of the next threat!

To our faithful readers, Enjoy

Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief, [email protected]
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