What a week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco! More than 25,000 people gathered to attend nearly 300 educational sessions, learn from high-profile speakers and visit about 400 vendors on the show floor in an effort to protect their enterprise’s brands and assets. As industry analyst Steve Hunt noted, “All of this to mitigate cyber crimes being perpetrated by about 3,000 people worldwide.” Throw in a few protests against the NSA, and you have yourself a show.
And for Security magazine, we put our stake in the ground to cover cyber as the business risk management issue it must become and not the IT game of Whack-A-Mole at which businesses have been losing, badly. Whenever I find siloed physical, IT and/or cybersecurity departments during a visit with an enterprise, I know the game is over for that organization. The criminals are not siloed and not relying on a quarterly committee meeting to steal. Once I hear, “We have a great relationship with the other department….” I know that the game is lost.