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Four Decades Later, RSA Poised for Independence and Market Leadership
9/2/2020In 1977, three mavericks developed an idea that would later inform the foundation of the modern Internet and information security. Nearly four decades later, the company that bears the first initials of its historic founders emerges with its independence and a rich legacy informing a path towards continued leadership.
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Open Letter to Customers and Partners
9/1/2020Read RSA CEO Rohit Ghai's open letter to customers and partners about what independent RSA means for the future of the company.
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RSA Archer Summit: A Virtual Experience
6/15/2020This year, RSA Archer Summit comes to you – wherever you are! Register today for the RSA Archer Summit virtual experience.
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RSA Innovates Cyber Skills Delivery in APJ
3/17/2020While “success” comes when the cybersecurity skills gap is no longer an issue facing our industry, RSA is encouraged by its Academic Alliance Programme’s evolution and recognition by others of the work we are doing.
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With a New Decade Comes a New Chapter
2/18/2020At a momentous time in the history of RSA Archer, it is time to look forward to future innovations
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2/18/2020RSA President Rohit Ghai believes the future will create new opportunities to help customers manage digital risk. Symphony Technology Group announces intent to acquire RSA.
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Taking the Lead: Addressing the Cyber Skills Gap in Asia-Pacific
7/17/2019The cybersecurity talent shortage is a global industry struggle, but one that we can address with time, investment and – most importantly – partnerships. RSA is doing its part with the RSA Academic Alliance Programme across South East Asia.
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RSA Academic Alliance Programme – Plugging the cybersecurity talent gap
7/15/2019Since 2014, RSA has been charting its course together with higher learning institutions to address the global shortage in the cybersecurity talent pool, as well as fighting off cyber threats. The RSA Academic Alliance Programme is a gradual and sure way for each country to deliver and close that talent gap. Read what some of the leading institutions in South East Asia are doing.
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An Open Letter to the Cybersecurity Industry on International Women’s Day
3/7/2019When we come together, we have the power to do remarkable things that have a significant positive impact across the globe. In our mission to help our customers and communities thrive in today’s high-risk world, it means making sure we are looking at problems from new perspectives. Not just technology issues, but people issues.
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Hey RSA Archer Summit fans – Pre-Summit Training Course(s) are Discounted!
4/9/2018RSA Archer Summit and RSA University team up to offer pre-conference training opportunities. From the fundamentals to advanced workflow and navigation, the courses will increase your abilities using the RSA Archer® platform…and all at a discount if you sign up now.
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How RSA’s Acquisition of Fortscale Acts as a Force Multiplier for the SOC and IAM Teams
4/5/2018For years, the industry has thought of the SOC and IAM as separate teams and capabilities, but they’re really two sides of the same coin. RSA’s acquisition of Fortscale enables customers to leverage UEBA capabilities as a force multiplier for both disciplines.
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Operational Rhythm at the Black Hat 2017 NOC
7/27/2017By Matt Tharp Operational rhythm is the term for the nebulous flow of information between parts of a team that makes it so effective. Who needs what, and when to be successful? In the Black Hat NOC, we have very little time to establish such a rhythm. However, a process for distributing critical information isn’t...
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Black Hat NOC 2017: Can Your Siem Do This?
7/25/2017Setup of the Black Hat NOC is an exciting time. The entire network infrastructure is dropped in place at Mandalay Bay. Multiple Black Hat NOC teams work long hours to get the network in place, configured and tested. The attention then turns to the NOC setup where the infrastructure is tied together. RSA, one of...
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RSA and the Power of CommUNITY
3/2/2017After attending RSA Conference 2017 it was clear the theme – The Power of CommUNITY – was a thread throughout the conference. This was seen in several places: Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan, CTO of RSA, mentioned this topic several times in his keynote on Tuesday morning. He urged us as an industry to “draw connections” and...
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What do RSA Conference 2017 and my DVR have in common?
3/1/2017Another year, another RSA Conference. At this point, I have lost count of my appearances at this annual gathering of all things security – I believe it was number 15 or 16 for me. I say “appearances” because the days blur into such a steady stream of meetings, discussions and general sensory overload that at...
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2/28/2017
It was a great week leading the RSA Conference Security Operations Center (SOC) Team consisting of RSA systems engineers, RSA Incident Response analysts and our partners at Cisco AMP Threat Grid. The Security Operations Center previously monitored the Black Hat conference network, but this was a first-time exhibit at RSA Conference. The team signed onto...
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2/14/2017
This year’s RSA Conference continues the long string of high powered speakers from both the private and the public sector. While there are great keynotes and more than 500 track sessions, we discovered we needed more! Five years ago, many senior government officials were looking for a platform from which they could communicate what they...
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Launching the Security Operations Center (SOC) at RSA Conference
2/13/2017Welcome to RSA Conference 2017! The RSA Conference SOC team set up the Security Operations Center over the weekend. We were here along with scores of construction crews re building huge booth displays for some of the largest security companies in the world. It was a long weekend of building, lighting – and of course...
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Identity Comes into Focus at RSA Conference
2/2/2017We are less than two weeks away from RSA Conference, the world’s largest security event! This year’s theme – The Power of Opportunity – emphasizes “unity.” Clever, right? We think so. Not only is it a great time to call for unity in cybersecurity among vendors and practitioners, but also end users. Every day we’re...
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RSAC Innovation Sandbox - Celebrating disruption
1/26/2017Fear of the unknown is a universal human trait according to anthropologist Donald Brown. In behavioral science, it’s called status quo bias- the emotional bias or preference humans have to the current state of affairs and their built in resistance to change. “Humans are allergic to change”, declared Admiral Grace Hopper, computing pioneer and 2016...
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Joining RSA's Mission To Deliver Business-Driven Security - From RSA's New President Rohit Ghai
1/9/2017I am delighted to be joining RSA at such an exciting and transformational time in the security industry. 2016 brought an unprecedented focus on the global cybersecurity situation. From the use of IoT vulnerabilities to halt the largest global websites, to politically motivated intrusions, to power grids being targeted – threats that were previously unimaginable...
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Tales from the Black Hat NOC: Are We Broken?
11/9/2016Walking through the expo hall at Black Hat Europe was uplifting – if the vendor booths were to be believed, APT’s can be stopped in their tracks, Ransomware protection can be guaranteed, and phishing can become a term applied to lake activities again. All it requires is buying this tool! It made me wonder why people...
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Tales from the Black Hat NOC: Finding Mr. Robot?
11/4/2016The most significant part of Black Hat Europe 2016 finally started, and as expected – we are watching the arrival of smart security experts, who have come to the event to exchange information or show off their latest tools and products. While it’s hard to say what kind of skilled “hackers” we can expect during last...
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Tales from the BlackHat NOC: Fish and Chips Edition
11/3/2016We’re in the first day of training at Black Hat Europe 2016, and once again – the RSA Black Hat NOC team is volunteering. This round, we’ll have more full packet capture, log analysis, session reconstruction, and analytics for both the wired and wireless networks provided by RSA NetWitness. Except this time, there is one difference (besides...
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Tales from the Black Hat NOC: Setup in London
11/3/2016Arrival into London went without a hitch. I then took the train to Angel station and walked to the Business Design Center, which is my home for the next week, during the Black Hat Europe 2016. After walking through the doors and finding my way I was greeted by a room full of boxes. Time to...
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Stirring Up GRC Ghosts at RSA Charge 2016
11/1/2016We held RSA Charge 2016 in New Orleans, the week prior to Halloween, in the “most haunted city in America” – and what a phenomenal turnout! We were thrilled to have more 2,000 attendees register and join us in person to share best practices for GRC, security and business risk management. The conference proved again...
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Cybersecurity - Let's Make It A Chick Thing
10/20/2016Time flies when you’re having fun fighting cybercriminals – we are already more than halfway through October and into the third week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This week’s theme is Recognizing and Combating Cybercrime, which is quite literally RSA’s raison d’etre. The focus this week is on the collaborative nature of fighting cybercrime as well...
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9/8/2016
Today is a new beginning for RSA as we are now a part of the collective team of Dell Technologies, the world’s largest privately controlled tech company. No doubt, many of you are asking what the impact of this merger will be to RSA. I am happy to tell you that RSA’s mission remains unchanged....
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Tales from the BlackHat NOC: Learning from the right people
8/19/2016The week I spent in the BlackHat NOC was great exposure to both new and evolving technology and new people. As a team member of the RSA team in the BlackHat NOC I tried to approach my time there by learning as much as I could about not only the data on the network, but how our products function...
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Tales from the Black Hat NOC: The Stages of Security Adolescence (Part 1)
8/11/2016RSA's Scott Carter asks: How do you secure a rapidly changing environment that you don't understand?
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Tales From The Black Hat NOC: Chaos So Organized, Even a T-Rex Can Do It
8/4/2016By Wednesday morning, the traffic profile switched from compartmentalized, per-classroom monitoring, to a chaotic sea of conference wireless...
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Tales from the Black Hat NOC: What's In Your Classroom?
8/4/2016Hanging in the NOC that last couple of days has confirmed one thing. Creation of content to support an information security program is an ongoing process.
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Tales from the Black Hat NOC: Attendee Attacks, Loud and Proud
8/3/2016We are approaching the end of Black Hat‘s training days. It’s an interesting time when the expo floor still sits quiet, but the Black Hat network is as noisy as ever – as seen by the RSA volunteers working inside the Black Hat NOC. The majority of this noise is being generated by teachers and students, demonstrating...
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Tales from the Black Hat NOC: Data in the Clear
8/1/2016I started my day by reading an article about how to stay safe during Black Hat and DEF CON. There were suggestions like – don’t bring a laptop, not to bring your smartphone, to leave your wallet at home, and only carry cash. Why would such recommendations be made? Black Hat and DEF CON attract security professionals, as well...
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Tales from The Black Hat NOC: Organizing the Chaos
7/31/2016A glimpse into training day. Yesterday marked the official start of Black Hat 2016, kicked off with various training courses spread throughout the convention center. For the RSA NOC team this meant a chance to validate yesterday’s installation and get an initial glimpse into the activity within and around the classroom and conference networks before the...
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Tales from the Black Hat NOC: I'll Show You Mine, We Can Already See Yours
7/31/2016With the start of Black Hat 2016 merely a day away, white, black, and grey hats from around the world are whetting their appetites – eagerly waiting to show off and consume the fruit of an entire year’s research. Whether for education, research, bragging rights, or mal-intent, the Black Hat network will host anything from basic brute force attacks to...
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RSA at Black Hat 2016 - Can't Wait!
7/22/2016Black Hat 2016 is fast approaching and I can’t wait! The main event will take place on August 3rd and 4th at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Will you be there? If you are attending Black Hat, please stop by the RSA booth – #1108. We have a lot of “goodness” planned for the security analysts...
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Dude, Where Is My Archer Summit?
7/14/2016We have all had that moment walking out of the shopping mall or the airport. Everyone knows the feeling when that rush of doubt takes hold of our brains. We stand frozen and frantically wait for our cerebral cortex to do its thing and pluck that single memory out of our vast network of synapses…...
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Behind the Glass Walls of the Black Hat NOC 2016: RSA Takes the Challenge
6/29/2016Every year, the increased sophistication of threat actors and the expanding attack surface makes it more challenging for the Black Hat NOC security teams to maintain a highly functional environment that is safe and secure but doesn’t stifle productivity and learning. When you have an assembly of the best and most advanced security experts, hackers,...
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6/10/2016
I was invited to give a keynote at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Congress in Dublin recently, on behalf of my EMC colleague Said Tabet. Two years before, I had spoken at the CSA Congress in Rome about the EU-funded SPECS and SPARKS projects and their relevance to cloud in terms of GRC and security analytics....
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Don't Settle for Less than 5 Stars
5/19/2016Booking a vacation to the Caribbean? You would want to stay at a 5-star resort, right? Planning a celebratory dinner? A 5-star restaurant would be a great choice. So when it comes to aligning your business with a partner that can best suit your needs, why settle for anything less? CRN, part of The Channel...
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A Trip Report from RSA Conference 2016: Modern Identity Management
5/14/2016For anyone who went to RSA Conference 2016 to get updated on the state of modern identity management technologies and practices, you undoubtedly got your money’s worth and came back to your office with plenty of ideas on how to improve your organization’s approach. Given its foundational role in information security, the topic of identity...
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The Industrialization of Cybercrime: Driving Innovations in Security
4/27/2016If you compare the world of cybercrime now to that of 10 years ago, there really is no comparison. Whether one measures its impact through estimated profits – which some estimate as now surpassing those of the profits for illegal drugs – or from the scale, scope, and sophistication of available “black hat” services and...
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4/1/2016
An update on the Chinese VPN service Terracotta, research reported by RSA in August 2015. Linked to APT threat groups Deep_Panda / Shell Crew
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Privacy: THE Hot Topic at #RSAC
3/11/2016Data privacy dominated the discourse at RSA Conference last week, unlike any hot-topic of years past. If you’re fascinated by this debate, as I am, and missed-out on some or all of RSAC this year, here is a list of talks that caught my attention. In addition to these keynote talks, the discussion spilled-out into...
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The Defining Issue of our Time
3/9/2016In his acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Award at RSA Conference, Art Coviello once again, as so many times in the past, showed the exceptional insight and leadership that has been his hallmark throughout his career. There have been many discussions this week about the interrelationship of privacy and security, particularly in the context...
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The Envelope Please: And the Awards Go to ... RSA
3/8/2016What do Leonardo DiCaprio and the teams at RSA have in common? Aside from the obvious — good looks and long, distinguished careers – we share one other important characteristic: We both took home heralded industry awards this past week. Leo’s Oscar might have generated a little more buzz. But, make no mistake, the two...
