InformIT: budgeting for software security

[gem at cigital.com (Gary McGraw)]

Hi all,

Larry has it right.  There was very little technical content at RSA this year.  All of the vendors on the show floor 
had pitches that sounded exactly the same.  Last year there was much more software security presence.

The good news for our field is that at the (small) executive forum, there was a fair amount of discussion of software 
security.  Justin Peavey from Omgeo put together a panel on software security that I helped with.  That was good.

Now attempting to fly home on the united cattle call cart.

Moo

gem

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Subject: Re: [SC-L] InformIT: budgeting for software security

At 8:14 AM -0500 4/11/08, Wall, Kevin wrote:

> In the context, I think his concern was that in the past, the RSA
> conferences were focused on infosec, and on cryptography in particular. Apparently,
> based on Stephen and gem's comments, it seems to have lost its focus. I think
> that's all that was being implied here.

Some years ago at an RSA Conference I recall seeing Jefferson
Starship.  At least one song had altered lyrics for the GAK
issue of the year, but that was not a whole lot of security
content in a general session.
--
Larry Kilgallen
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