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The RSA Conference was never where "security experts" went anyway. Sure some smart people occasionally showed up and talked, but it was mostly because their emp
by dsl 13y ago
The RSA Conference was never where "security experts" went anyway. Sure some smart people occasionally showed up and talked, but it was mostly because their employers wanted exposure.
RSAC always was and always will be for suits that need to spend money and the vendors who need to take it from the,. All the cool kids with innovative research will be at BSidesSF.
- drdeadringer 13y agoWhat do you think will happen at the conferences "security experts" do go to? DefCon, for example.
- sdfjkl 13y agoThe feds get uninvited: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/for-first-time-ever-feds-asked-to-sit-out-defcon-hacker-conference/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/for-first-time-ever-...
- tptacek 13y agoAt Defcon, but not at Black Hat (the more important of the two), where Keith Alexander gave a keynote.
- makomk 13y agoNot just any keynote either, it was more or less pro-government propaganda, complete with pre-vetted questions from the audience.
- rdl 13y agoAlso happened during the sequester, and when GSA had recently gotten in trouble for Vegas boondoggles, so I think there was a reduction in interest/increase in cancellations, and this was both a cheap way to send a "message", and a face-saving way to help them cancel.
- tptacek 13y agoDefcon is more of a recreational conference than a professional venue. Black Hat, CanSec... maybe Recon, HITB... those are the professional venues. CRYPTO and ASIACRYPT are major crypto venues. Nothing is going to happen at any of them. RSAC is an oddity in that it is a conference that cuts across the whole industry that is "owned" by a single vendor.
- pbsd 13y agoCT-RSA, RSAC's cryptographic subconference, while not being a flagship conference like CRYPTO, is fairly relevant.
- rdl 13y agoI'm sure you're aware BH recently shot itself in the head by getting rid of their last connection to the Jeff Moss days; it looks like it's rapidly headed toward "just another RSA".