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Security is about outcomes: RSA edition

So last week I asked what people wanted to get out of RSA, and the answer was mostly silence and snark. There are some good summaries of RSA at securosis and Stiennon’s network world blog, so I won’t try to do that.

But I did I promise to tell you what I wanted to get out of it. My goals, ordered:

1. A successful Research Revealed track. I think we had some great talks, a panel I’m not qualified to judge (since I was on it), and at least a couple of sell-out sessions. But you tell me. Did it work for you?
2. See interesting new technology. I saw three things: Garner’s hard driver crusher (they have a “destroy” button!), Camouflage‘s database masking and some very cool credit card form factor crypto devices from Emue. (I’d add Verizon’s DBIR [link to http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2009/04/15/2009-dbir/ no longer works], but I saw that before the show.) Four interesting bits? Counts as success. Ooh, plus saw the Aptera car.
3. Announce our new blog at Newschoolsecurity.com. Done!
4. See friends and make five new ones. It turns out that the most successful part of this was my Open Security Foundation t-shirt. I urge you all to donate and get this highly effective networking tool.
5. Connect five pairs of people who previously didn’t know each other. I counted seven, which makes me really happy.

What I didn’t want: a hangover. Only had one, Friday morning.

Originally published by adam on 29 Apr 2009
Last modified on 6 Jun 2017
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