Information security professionals need to be more open to adaptation and embrace emerging ideas to enhance overall cyber-resiliency, according to expert speakers during an opening keynote on day 1 of the virtual RSAC Conference 2021.
Jimmy Sanders, information security, Netflix DVD, and Angela Weinman, head of global governance, risk and compliance, VMware, set out three “hard truths” about the sector, and how these negative practices can be addressed.
1. The Security Risk Picture is Out of Focus
This is a major issue, “because if you can’t accurately determine risk, it becomes difficult to rapidly recover from impacts,” explained Sanders.
Weinman noted that the industry is not currently managing the risk well enough,” and she cited a recent VMWare study with MIT, which showed that under half (46%) of top executives stated they were happy with how their resiliency risk plans were executed last year.
Keynoters from Cisco, Netflix and RSA highlighted lessons from the last year, and cybersecurity's new mandate in the post-pandemic world: Bounce back stronger.
CEO Chuck Robbins speaks onstage September 26, 2019 in New York City. Robbins and Jimmy Sanders, head of information security at Netflix, both noted during the RSA Conference the degree of change in security driven by the pandemic. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Global Citizen)
Was the pandemic a net positive or negative for cybersecurity?
On the one hand, there is no doubt the nearly overnight shift to remote work led to sometimes sloppy IT architecting that increased the overall attack surface for many businesses, quickly followed by a worrying increase in the amount of new vulnerabilities discovered and a cornucopia of high profile hacking incidents against government and industry. On the other hand, the pandemic forced companies to shed many of the legacy systems and older brick and mortar practices that sometimes prevent companies from implementing modern security.
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® Conference, the world s leading information security conferences and expositions, today announced its initial line-up of keynote speakers for RSA Conference 2021, which is taking place as a virtual experience from May 17 through May 20.
Reimagined for digital-first, RSA Conference 2021 will deliver Keynote programming across all four days of the virtual experience. Acclaimed speakers include prominent cybersecurity experts and innovators, such as:
Dmitri Alperovitch, Chairman, Silverado Policy Accelerator and Sandra Joyce, Executive VP, Head of Global Intelligence, FireEye