RSA's 2012 conference is going on right now; that conference is one of the biggest cybersecurity conferences around.  And yes, that's the same RSA that was hacked earlier this year.  A quick survey of everything that has come out of the conference so far:

***

Stacy Cowley reported for CNN on the RSA conference.  According to the article, RSA chief Arthur Coviello emphasized that the cybersecurity field is going through a watershed moment: cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with network penetration becoming the norm.  Indeed, Coviello believes that companies should invest just as much in threat detection as threat defense.  Companies should concede that hackers will get in, and thus, place more focus on mitigating the damage.

***

George V. Hulme wrote for ComputerWorld on the RSA conference.  Apparently Mike McConnell, former director of the NSA, was at the conference talking up cloud computing.  Specifically, Mr. McConnell argued that the US is in a global economic battle, with US intellectual property losses due to cyber-espionage as the front line.  To stem the losses, McConnell believes that the US must drive cloud technology because "the economics of the cloud are so compelling they can't be denied."  

***

Tom Espiner also reported on the RSA conference for ZDNet.  According to the article, several cybersecurity execs (including the aforementioned RSA head Arthur Coviello) suggested that organizations need to adopt "big data".  Big data is the idea that an organization collects all cybersecurity data from both inside and outside the organization, and then analyzes it.  Essentially, the organization would look for patterns in the data evidencing a cyberattack.  Sounds like data-mining.  One cybersecurity expert said that organizations already collect large amounts of security data, they just don't have a quick way to make sense of the patterns.   

***

Iain Thomson reported for The Register on how RSA claimed that the hacking breach it suffered "has made us stronger."  Notably, that hacking breach "should put the last nail in the coffin of perimeter defenses . . ."

RSA's 2012 conference is going on right now; that conference is one of the biggest cybersecurity conferences around.  And yes, that's the same RSA that was hacked earlier this year.  A quick survey of everything that has come out of the conference so far:

***

Stacy Cowley reported for CNN on the RSA conference.  According to the article, RSA chief Arthur Coviello emphasized that the cybersecurity field is going through a watershed moment: cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with network penetration becoming the norm.  Indeed, Coviello believes that companies should invest just as much in threat detection as threat defense.  Companies should concede that hackers will get in, and thus, place more focus on mitigating the damage.

***

George V. Hulme wrote for ComputerWorld on the RSA conference.  Apparently Mike McConnell, former director of the NSA, was at the conference talking up cloud computing.  Specifically, Mr. McConnell argued that the US is in a global economic battle, with US intellectual property losses due to cyber-espionage as the front line.  To stem the losses, McConnell believes that the US must drive cloud technology because "the economics of the cloud are so compelling they can't be denied."  

***

Tom Espiner also reported on the RSA conference for ZDNet.  According to the article, several cybersecurity execs (including the aforementioned RSA head Arthur Coviello) suggested that organizations need to adopt "big data".  Big data is the idea that an organization collects all cybersecurity data from both inside and outside the organization, and then analyzes it.  Essentially, the organization would look for patterns in the data evidencing a cyberattack.  Sounds like data-mining.  One cybersecurity expert said that organizations already collect large amounts of security data, they just don't have a quick way to make sense of the patterns.   

***

Iain Thomson reported for The Register on how RSA claimed that the hacking breach it suffered "has made us stronger."  Notably, that hacking breach "should put the last nail in the coffin of perimeter defenses . . ."