The RSA USA Conference for 2017, in San Francisco, took place last week. Each year my experience is similar: the time is so compressed, the experience is intense, I meet great new people, and I always learn something new.
Below I have copied my agenda for the week, so you know what sessions I attended. Please contact me if you have any comments or questions about these sessions.
Mon 2/13 ——
10a – 12p SEM-M05
How-to-Series: Year One Innovators and Entrepreneurs, David Blumberg, Michael DeCesare, Theresa Gouw, Patrick Heir, Steve Hero, Jay Leek, Troels Oerting, Ted Schlein, Cat Zakrzewski
1p – 4:30p ISB-M01
Innovation Sandbox: Top 10 most innovative startups
Tue 2/14 ——
8a – 10:30a Keynotes
* Planning for Chaos, Zulfikar Ramzan, CTO, RSA
* Brad Smith, President, Microsoft
* Sweating the Small Stuff on a Global Scale, Andrew Young, SVP/GM, Intel Security
* The Cryptographers’ Panel (Paul Kocher, Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau, Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir
1:15p – 2p EXP-T09
Regulating the Internet of Things, Bruce Schneier
2:30p – 3:15p EXP-T10
Ted Schlein and Michèle Flournoy on the Future of Security and Defense
3:45p – 4:30p HTA-T11R
Meet and Greet with the macOS Malware Class of 2016, Patrick Wardle, Synack
Wed 2/15 ——
8a – 8:45a PNG-W02
Beyond Stuxnet: State of the Art in Cyberwarfare and Weapons, Kim Zetter, Gary Brown, Oren Falkowitz, Roy Katmar
9:15a – 10 a EXP-W03
Hacking Exposed: Real-World Tradecraft of Bears, Pandas and Kittens, Dmitri Alperovitch, George Kurtz, CrowdStrike
10:30a – 12p Keynotes
* The Seven Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques, and What’s Coming Next, Alan Paller, Michael Assante, Ed Skoudis, Johannes Ullrich, SANS
1:30p – 2:15p PRV-W10
Resurrecting Privacy in the Cloud: A Privacy Engineering Implementation, Michelle Dennedy, Alissa Cooper, Michele Guel, Harvey Jang, Cisco
2:45p – 3:30p GRC-W11
Crown Jewels Risk Assessment: Cost-Effective Risk Identification, Doug Landoll, Lantego
4p – 5:00p Keynotes
* Radical Innovation: Revolutionizing the Future of Cybersecurity, Hugh Thompson
* The Great A.I. Awakening: A Conversation with Eric Schmidt, Google
Thu 2/16 ——
7a-7:45a BOF2-R01C
Birds of A Feather: Multifactor Authentication Redefined, Wendy Nather, Duo Security
8a – 8:45a AIR-R02F
One-Hit Wonders: Dealing with Millions of Anomalies, Chris Larsen, Symantec
8:45a – 9:15a SBX2-R1
Ransomeware, Drones, Smart TVs, Bots: Protecting Consumers In the Age of IoT, Terrell McSweeny and Aaron Alva, Federal Trade Commission
9:15a – 10a FON1-R03
Focus-on session: One-Hit Wonders, Chris Larsen, Symantec
10:30a – 11:40a Keynotes
* Topics of Leadership and Teamwork with Dame Stella Rimington, MI5
1:30p – 2:15p PDAC-R10F
How to Delete Data for Realz: This Presentation Will Self-Destruct In…, Davi Ottenheimer and Ian Smith
2:45p – 3:30p FON3-R11
Focus-on session: How to Delete Data for Realz, David Ottenheimer and Ian Smith
4p – 4:45p P2P2-R11
You Can’t Take It With You! How to Manage Security When Personnel Depart, Kenneth Morrison, Morrison Consulting
Fri 2/17 ——
9a – 9:45a EXP-F01
The Future: Revealed, Ben Jun and Hugh Thompson
10:15a – 11a MBS-F02
IoT End of Days, Chris Henderson, IBM
11:30a – 12:15p CXO-F03
Corporate Security: Where the Physical and Digital Worlds Collide, Shawn Henry, CrowdStrike