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Takeaways from RSA Conference 2020
I just came off another successful RSA Conference (where more than 40,000 cybersecurity and privacy professionals descended upon San Francisco to discuss today’s pressing privacy and security issues and swap insights on how to address them): 5 days, 1 panel, 1 roundtable, 4 dinners, 7 networking socials, 3 lunches, more than a dozen meetings, several sessions and keynotes, and even more cybersecurity and privacy peers connected with!
Wow, writing that brought a wave of momentary exhaustion and excitement. Following RSAC 2020, I took the time to recharge and to reflect on some of my overarching takeaways.
Takeaway #1: Privacy was on the rise at RSAC 2020
Each year I attend RSA Conference, the number of times privacy gets highlighted at the conference keeps rising, and this year was no exception. This year, thanks to Susan Lyon-Hintze and Angelique Carson, there was a robust privacy track with two keynotes focusing on privacy (one on genomic privacy and another on privacy as a human right). Privacy topics like GDPR, CCPA, the NIST privacy framework, and privacy engineering were commonplace.
