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Presenting the RSA Conference Guide 2016

Mike Rothman February 25, 2016 No Comments

Apparently the RSA Conference folks failed to regain their senses after letting us have free reign last year to post our RSA Conference Guide to the conference blog. We changed the structure this year, and here is how we explained it in the introductory post of the Guide. In previous years the RSAC-G followed a consistent format. An overview of top-level trends and themes you would see at the show, a deep dive into our coverage areas, and a breakout of what’s on the show floor. We decided to change things up this year. The conference has grown enough that our old format doesn’t make as much sense. And we are in the middle of shaking up the company, so might as well update the RSAC-G while we’re at it. This year we’ll still highlight main themes, which often set the tone for the rest of the security presentations and marketing you see throughout the year. But instead of deep dives into our coverage areas, we are focusing on projects and problems we see many clients tackling. When you go to a conference like RSA, it isn’t really to learn about technology for technology’s sake–you are there to learn how to solve (or at least manage) particular problems and projects. This year our deep dives are structured around the security problems and projects we see toping priority lists at most organizations. Some are old favorites, and others are just hitting the radar for some of you. We hope the new structure is a bit more practical. We want you able to pop open the Guide, find something at the top of your list, jump into that section, and know where to focus your time. Then we take all that raw content and format it into a snazzy PDF with a ton of meme goodness. So you can pop the guide onto your device and refer to it during the show. Without further ado, we are excited to present the entire RSA Conference Guide 2016 (PDF). Just so you can get a taste of the meme awesomeness of the published Guide, check out this image. That’s right. We may be changing the business a bit, but we aren’t going to get more politically correct, that’s for sure. And it’s true. Most n00b responders soil their pants a bit until they get comfortable during incidents. And in case you want to check out the posts on the RSAC blog: Introduction The Securosis Guide to the RSA Conference 2016: The FUD Awakens! Key Themes Yes, all the key themes have a Star Wars flavor. Just because we can. Threat Intelligence & Bothan Spies R2DevOps Escape from Cloud City The Beginning of the End(point) for the Empire Training Security Jedi Attack of the (Analytics) Clones Deep Dives Cloud Security Threat Protection Data Security Share:

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Summary: The Cloud Horizon

Adrian Lane February 25, 2016 No Comments

By Adrian Two weeks ago Rich sketched out some changes to our Friday Summary, including how the content will change. But we haven’t spelled out our reasons. Our motivation is simple. In a decade, over half your systems will be in some cloud somewhere. The Summary will still be about security, but we’ll focus on security for cloud services, cloud applications, and how DevOps techniques intertwine with each. Rather than rehash on-premise security issues we have covered (ad nauseum) for 9 years, we believe it’s far more helpful to IT and security folks to discuss what is on the near horizon which they are not already familiar with. We can say with certainty that most of what you’ve learned about “the right way to do things” in security will be challenged by cloud deployments, so we are tuning the Summary to increase understanding the changes in store, and what to do about them. Trends, features, tools, and even some code. We know it’s not for everybody, but if you’re seriously interested, you can subscribe directly to the Friday Summary. The RSA conference is next week, so don’t forget to get a copy of Securosis’s Guide to the RSA Conference. But be warned; Mike’s been at the meme generator again, and some things you just can’t unsee. Oh, and if you’re interested in attending the Eighth Annual Securosis Disaster Recovery Breakfast at RSA, please RSVP. That way we know how much bacon to order. Or Bloody Marys to make. Something like that. 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Visit the AWS Pop-up Loft for Security Talks! Amazon CTO On Encryption: “Evil Players Will Get Access To These Backdoors” IBM previews new tools for developing with Swift in the cloud Tool of the Week This is a new section highlighting a cloud, DevOps, or security tool we think you should take a look at. We still struggle to keep track of all the interesting tools that can help us, so if you have submissions please email them to info@securosis.com. Alerts literally drive DevOps. One may fire off a cloud-based service, or it might indicate a failure a human needs to look at. When putting together a continuous integration pipeline, or processing cloud services, how do you communicate status? SMS and email are the common output formats, and developer tools like Slack or bug tracking systems tend to be the endpoints, but it’s hard to manage and integrate the streams of automated outputs. And once you get one message of a particular event type, you usually don’t want to see that event again for a while. You can create a simple web console, or use AWS to stream to specified recipients, but that’s all manual setup. Things like Slack can help with individuals, team, and third parties, but managing them is frankly a pain in the ass. As you scale up cloud and DevOps processes it’s easy to get overwhelmed. One of the tools I was looking at this week was (x)matters, which provides an integration and management hub for automated messages. It can understand messages from multiple sources and offers aggregation to avoid over-pinging users. I have not seen many products addressing this problem, so I wanted to pass it along. Securosis Blog Posts this Week Firestarter: RSA Conference – the Good, Bad, and the Ugly. Securing Hadoop: Technical Recommendations. Securing Hadoop: Enterprise Security For NoSQL. Other Securosis News and Quotes I posted a piece at Macworld on the FBI vs. Apple that has gotten a lot of attention. It got linked all over the place and I did a bunch of interviews, but I won’t spam you with them. We are posting our whole RSA Conference Guide as posts over at the RSA Conference blog – here are the latest: Securosis Guide: Training Security Jedi Securosis Guide: The Beginning of the End(point) for the Empire Securosis Guide: Escape from Cloud City Training and Events We are giving multiple presentations at the RSA Conference. Rich and Mike are giving Cloud Security Accountability Tour Rich is co-presenting with Bill Shinn of AWS: Aspirin as a Service: Using the Cloud to Cure Security Headaches David Mortman is presenting: Learning from Unicorns While Living with Legacy Docker: Containing the Security Excitement Docker: Containing the Security Excitement (Focus-On) Leveraging Analytics for Data Protection Decisions Rich is giving a presentation on Rugged DevOps at Scale at DevOps Connect the Monday of RSAC We are running two classes at Black Hat USA: Cloud Security Hands-On (CCSK-Plus) Advanced Cloud Security and Applied SecDevOps Share:

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