
By Byron V. Acohido
The theme of RSA Conference 2023 — ‘stronger together’ — was certainly well chosen.
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This was my nineteenth RSAC. I attended my first one in 2004, while covering Microsoft for USA TODAY. It certainly was terrific to see the cybersecurity industry’s premier trade event fully restored to its pre-Covid grandeur at San Francisco’s Moscone Center last week.
Rising from the din of 625 vendors, 700 speakers and 26,000 attendees came the clarion call for a new tier of overlapping, interoperable, highly automated security platforms needed to carry us forward.
Defense-in-depth remains a mantra — but implemented much differently than the defense-in- depth strategies of the first decade and a half of this century. Machine learning, automation and interoperability must take over and several new security layers must coalesce and interweave to protect the edge.
Getting a grip on identities
To keep the momentum going, business rivals and regulators are going to have to find meaningful ways to co-ordinate and cooperate at an unprecedented level. Here are four evolving themes reverberating from RSAC 2023 that struck me:
Password enabled access will endure for the foreseeable future.