I’m posting this from the Press Working Room on the open WiFi network, so there’s every chance the security experts in attendance will have read these words before my editor does. Still, the conference is a far cry from DefCon or the Black Hat Conference — more collared shirts for one thing, and fewer unkempt beards. What’s absolutely familiar, though, is the concern amongst attendees about the current state of cybersecurity.
As RSA President Amit Yoran put it in his opening address: cybersecurity is broken.
Without a doubt, we are at an inflection point for humanity, where technology will control its own destiny, the results of which we cannot predict.