RSA Conference Proves Why the Privacy Landscape Is Challenging
From Monday, Feb. 24 to Friday, Feb. 28, I was trapped in the bowels of the Moscone Center at the RSA Conference here and listened to vendors large and small sell their wares and preach wisdom on the state of modern IT security.
For the most part, it was an endless drumbeat of repetitive claims about enabling security and privacy in the post-Snowden era. The irony of the claims is that many were made within earshot of the exhibit hall booth from the National Security Agency (NSA), which had a decent size floor space to give out information about the agency's activities.
The U.S. government in various sessions made its cyber-security position known as well as its approach to privacy. Hidden deep within the RSA conference, and in a timeslot that pitted it against vendor keynotes on the main stage, was a single session that for me, defined my RSA Conference experience this year. The session was a panel event titled "Watching the Watchers," and it included a who's who of government privacy leaders.
