As in recent years, panelists included Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir - the R and S in the RSA cryptosystem. They were joined by Carmela Troncoso, an assistant professor at Switzerland s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, whose work focuses on analyzing, building and deploying secure and privacy-preserving systems.
Also on the panel: Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at both the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, founder of the discipline of security economics and author of the textbook Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems.
Moderating was Zulfikar Ramzan, chief digital officer at RSA - the security firm that runs the eponymous conference - who dived headfirst into one aspect of the crypto debate.
In a world transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, the CEO of security firm RSA, which runs the eponymous conference, took to the stage virtually on Monday, delivering a prerecorded keynote speech on the theme of this year s event. It s been 15 months since we met, right before the pandemic stopped the world in its tracks, and in that time, countless doctors, nurses and other first responders have been brave enough to be the light for all of us. They ve worked tirelessly to save lives, and we owe them our gratitude, said Rohit Ghai, CEO of RSA. I also want to express my deepest thanks to each of you, our digital first responders, he added. When everything was upended, you made sure that kids could still log into their classrooms, researchers could collaborate on vaccines and governments could serve their citizens. Though I d prefer to thank you all in person, virtual formats like this symbolize the year we ve had, the adaptations we ve had to make, and the theme of RSA Confer
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