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RSA Conference is Right Around The Corner – Don’t Miss Out

Friends,

Every year, for the past 4 years, and we hope to continue this tradition
for a very long time, Cyber Defense Magazine produces our annual Print
Edition exclusively for the RSA Conference in the United States. This
year, the conference takes place a bit earlier than last year, however, the
weather will be warm and sunny in one of the nicest cities you could ever
visit on earth – San Francisco, CA. From the Pacific Ocean to the
Golden Gate Bridge, the views are stupendous. The food is great. The
people are great. It’s just a great place. It’s so scenic, one must see it and experience it for
themselves to believe it. Add the RSA Conference to the mix, and we bring to the Silicon Valley
area, the best and brightest INFOSEC professionals on earth.

So, we turn a corner entering 2016 with a well timed event – the Biggest INFOSEC show on earth,
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starting February 28 , through March 3, 2016. Meanwhile, we see, as I predicted, more breaches,
more Remote Access Trojan (RAT) attacks, more sophisticated spear phishing and too many
Cryptolocker victims to list.

Isn’t it time we get our “C” level execs to take INFOSEC more seriously? Do we have to try to prove
to them that just a firewall and antivirus alone is not enough? Do we have to explain why full disk
encryption and frequent backups are so important? Or how about why we want to test the
BCP/DRP plan and make sure there’s still fuel in the diesel backup generator and it actually still
works? Let’s make our voices heard and convince the “C” levels that if they don’t start taking
INFOSEC seriously, then if and when we fall victim, the possibility of NO RECOVERY from a
breach – that is – going out of business – is a real threat to consider.

Take time to come to RSA, gather new ideas and innovative tools, techniques and products to help
us in our battle against spear phishing, RATs, denial of service, malicious insiders, rogue devices
and the plethora of the barrage of new attack methodologies used by cyber criminals who
understand the value of personally identifiable information (PII). Let’s learn more on how to stop
them and get one step ahead of them this year. Then, let’s share our findings with our “C” level
execs so they can make more intelligent buying decisions and understand why training employees
is so important. If you are joining us at RSA, you’ll find us in our press room interviewing cyber
luminaries or on the Expo floor at our kiosk – handing out free copies of the print edition and helping
folks subscribe to our free monthly cyber warnings. If you have the time, please come see us at
RSA.

To our faithful readers, Enjoy

Pierluigi Paganini

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