What security technology will be hot at RSA 2011?
The annual RSA Conference, now in its 20th year, will be rocking this month as the security industry gathers in the weeklong extravaganza of product introductions and security experts arguing cloud and mobile computing security issues.
Industry executives stepping into the limelight at the show will include Scott Charney, Microsoft's corporate vice president for trustworthy computing. Charney will be posing the idea of a "collective defense for Internet health" that might involve a new type of computer check-up to detect botnet or other malware code, and what might be social and political implications. The Pentagon's deputy secretary of defense, William Lynn, is expected to speak about the Defense Department's cybersecurity strategy — and ask for assistance from industry to develop technologies against adversaries trying to get into sensitive networks.
Other keynote speakers will be Enrique Salem, president and CEO of Symantec; Bill Veghte, executive vice president, software and solutions, enterprise business at HP, expected to discuss what HP will be doing to innovate with its recent acquisitions of ArcSight and Fortify; and Tom Gillis, Cisco's vice president and general manager, security technology business unit, likely to discuss Cisco's security strategies in mobile and cloud computing.
