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Regionally Focused Security Lessons on Tap at RSA®

Conference APJ

RSA Conference Asia Pacific & Japan 2015 will feature many top-rated speakers from across
the globe delivering powerful presentations. The Program Committee has had its hands full this
year as it sorted through a record number of submissions, tasked with selecting those that
provided the most timely, compelling content for our attendees—content that would really
change the way they do their jobs and secure their organizations.

We are extremely pleased with the nine-fold increase of submissions this year featuring
research and analysis specific to Asia. This will help us deliver on our promise of delivering a
RSA Conference APJ with programming that directly matters to our local attendees.

A few months ago we analyzed the 2015 U.S. submissions and uncovered a few patterns which
we were able to map to overall security trends. We applied the same type of analysis to APJ
submissions—utilizing the above word cloud and other data analytics—and found the potential
speakers were focused on similar topics as their US counterparts, but through a regional lens.

We have presenters who will provide a detailed analysis of threat actors and techniques used to
target Asian organizations—who, incidentally, are targeted more frequently than their Western
counterparts. Detailed presentations about specific hacktivist and nation state attacks will also
be delivered with in-region examples and data. The ability of our presenters to hone in on the
direct and distinct needs of our local audience is exciting for us to see. The details and insights
will help our attendees realize tremendous value by attending this regional event. Similarly, we
saw a marked increase in session submissions that discussed specific breaches and threats.
Based on the levels of increase, we seem to have crossed the threshold where, to use a phrase

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