Blogging from RSA Conference 2009

We are at the RSA Conference 2009 starting today with a couple of interesting pre-conference events.

First, the eFraudNetwork meeting was held today where Laura Mather moderated a panel of fraud experts from Bank of America, Yahoo! and Medicare/Medicaid. The panel discussed ideas and best practices for protecting customers – everything from encrypting data, education and awareness, and tracking perpetrators of online crime. The panel was titled, “Protecting Customers: Case Studies from Leading Enterprises.”

The Innovation Sandbox was held highlighting ten (out of 50+) new companies who had creative ideas in the area of security. A good mini-conference to help promote the new, young startups get a little more attention. A couple of interesting companies, in my opinion, include Purewire (SaaS-based protection for enterprise client machines) and Behaviosec (behavior analysis of the user on how they interact with their machine: typing, mouse movements, etc.). The most entertaining was seeing the executives pitch their company in 3 minutes, which the winner, AlertEnterprise, did just that – plus, they had the best visually appealing application – hard to beat 3-D images.

Lastly, the welcome reception was a good way to get started on seeing the expo floor… booth discussions are so much better done over a beer.

Looking forward to tomorrow’s keynotes and Jeremiah Grossman’s Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques of 2008 – usually some good business logic abuse in there!