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05.17.2021 | 6'' read

Yawning through RSA conference week

by Ryan Naraine

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Monday blues. 

It’s RSA Conference week and, quite frankly, I’m yawning through most of it this year.  There’s just no way to replicate the in-person experience where RSA offsite networking drive a lot of deal-making, hirings and vendor partnerships. This year, it feels staler than usual and the year-long Zoom/headphone fatigue means that no one is excited to watch another virtual presentation with poor camera/microphone settings.

That said, I’ll be helping to facilitate Sounil Yu’s deep dive on the Cyber Defense Matrix, helping RSA attendees to create new use cases, create roadmaps, map incidents and figure out business constraints. For more on the Cyber Defense Matrix, listen to my conversation with Sounil on expanding use cases in modern security programs.

Next week, I’ll be appearing at SecurityWeek’s threat-intel summit, hosting a fireside chat with Tom Rid, professor of strategic studies and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and moderating a panel of CISOs discussing the value of threat-intelligence to defenders.

A closing note, to security marketers, are you seriously proud of seeing your name in this scrolling list of paid-for participation trophies? Terribly embarrassing, for all involved.

On a much more positive note, congrats to cybersecurity lifer Adam Ely for landing the CISO gig at Fidelity Investments.

_ryan


On to the newsletter.  

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  • Heather Adkins, director, information security, Google
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Hardware security.
The DarkSide ransomware madness.
Car hacking.
Supply chain security.

Cloud things.

Off-topic.

Have a fantastic week.

_ryan

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