RSA Conference 2025
The world's largest cybersecurity conference. Keynotes and policy sessions from RSAC 2025 covering AI security, nation-state threats, regulatory frameworks, and the security industry's strategic direction.
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- RSAC™ Conference Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation — Burt Kaliski, Ron Rivest, Jim Bidzos
RSA Conference 2025 honored Dr. Burton Kaliski, Senior Vice President and CTO of Verisign, with its Lifetime Achievement Award for more than four decades of foundational contributions to…
- Catch Attackers Before They Strike with AI-powered Threat Intelligence — Nadir Izreal
Armis CTO and Co-founder Nadir Israel argues that defenders are losing the cybersecurity war for two compounding reasons: widespread AI adoption by attackers and a persistent failure to achieve…
- Exposure Management: The New Cyber Risk Strategy — Mark Thurmond
Tenable Co-CEO Mark Thurmond made the case at RSA Conference 2025 that the cybersecurity industry's dominant model — deploying more tools, more alerts, more specialized teams — has fundamentally…
- From Gamer to Leader: How to Build Resilient Cyber Teams — Matthew Radolec
Varonis VP Matthew Radolec argued at RSA Conference 2025 that the gaming community represents the most underutilized talent pool in cybersecurity — a group whose intrinsic skills in strategy…
- The Future of Threat Detection and Response — Mike Horn, Tom Gillis
Cisco's Tom Gillis and Splunk's Mike Horn argue that the traditional centralized security architecture is fundamentally inadequate for an AI-driven world where attack surfaces are expanding and data…
- Outpace Cyber Threats with Agentic AI + Human Ingenuity — Tomer Weingarten
SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten delivered a candid assessment of an industry he believes has failed to solve its most fundamental problems, even as it races to deploy AI. His prescription: stop…
- RSAC™ Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics — Shai Halevi, Victor Shoup, Adi Shamir
The RSAC 2025 Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics, co-sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), was presented jointly to Dr. Shai Halevi of…
- The CISO's Guide to Securing a Board Seat — George Kurtz, Adam Zoller, Phil Venables
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz made a pointed prediction from the RSA Conference main stage: within a decade, every public company will have a CISO on its board — or will wish it had. Drawing a direct…
- AI and Cybersecurity — Sandra Joyce, Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
Sandra Joyce, VP of Google Threat Intelligence, used RSA 2025 to cut through AI hype with evidence drawn from real-world incident response: attackers are using models like Gemini as productivity…
- Security in the Age of Agentic AI — Vasu Jakkal
Microsoft Security's Vasu Jakkal delivered a sweeping keynote at RSA 2025 that framed the rise of agentic AI as both the industry's most transformative opportunity and its most consequential…
- RSAC™ Conference Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation — Amit Yoran, Linda Gray Martin, Elad Yoran
RSA Conference 2025 paused its packed keynote program to honor Amit Yoran — former Chairman and CEO of Tenable, founder of NetWitness, and one-time president of RSA — with a posthumous Lifetime…
- The Intelligence War: Nation-State Cyber Threats — John Fokker
John Fokker, a former Dutch Marine and cybercrime investigator turned Trellix's Head of Threat Intelligence, delivered one of RSA 2025's most operationally grounded keynotes: a real-time case study…
- Protecting AI Infrastructure — Jeetu Patel
Cisco CPO Jeetu Patel argues that AI introduces an entirely new class of security risks — rooted in the non-deterministic nature of AI models — that the industry must address on two parallel fronts…
- Cybersecurity Together: Unlocking the Power of Community — Hugh Thompson
Hugh Thompson opened RSA Conference 2025 by making the case that community — not any single technology or vendor — is the security industry's deepest competitive advantage. Drawing on a…
- Global Cyber Policy — Chris Inglis, Anne Keast-Butler
GCHQ Director Anne Keast-Butler, in conversation with former U.S. National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, delivered a keynote fireside chat on the state of global cyber cooperation. She argued that no…
- Cyber Policy: A View from the White House — Alexei Bulazel, Stewart Baker
Alexei Bulazel, the Trump administration's Senior Director for Cyber at the National Security Council and its highest-ranking cyber official at the time of the conference, delivered a candid account…
- Making America Safe Again Through Cyber Defense — Kristi Noem, José-Marie Griffiths
Speaking on the eve of President Trump's 100th day in office, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem outlined her administration's vision for American cyber defense — one built on refocusing…
- UK's Cybersecurity Revolution: Professionalization's Global Impact — Andrew Elliot, Sian John, Jon France, Dan Gorecki
The UK Cybersecurity Council is pioneering a formal professional framework for cybersecurity — complete with chartership, a professional register, and eight recognized specialisms — modeled on the…
- Why Democratizing Cybersecurity Is Good for Business — Jochai Ben-Avie, Kayle Giroud, Chris Painter, Rob Sheldon, Erin Ceynar
A panel from the Global Cyber Alliance's Common Good Cyber initiative made the case that uneven access to cybersecurity tools and expertise is not just a fairness problem — it is a systemic risk…
- Defeating Ransomware: A 360° Review of the RTF Four Years On — Megan Stifel, Carole House, Allan Liska, Michael Phillips, John Davis
Four years after the Ransomware Task Force published its landmark forty-eight-recommendation report, the panelists who built it — including the Executive Director, two working group co-chairs, the…
- Shaping Cybersecurity: How Regulation Shapes Operational Cyber Defense — Christiane Kirketerp de Viron, Tim Maurer, Ari Schwartz, Josephine Wolff, Florian Schütz
Cybersecurity regulation has expanded dramatically over the past decade, but the proliferation of jurisdiction-specific rules is creating a compliance burden that may actually impede the security…
- Silicon and Statecraft: Tech, Venture Capital, and the National Interest — Chris Inglis, Mitch Herckis, Matthew Cronin
The United States has entered a new era of deep collaboration between the private sector and the federal government — one with clear historical precedent in World War II and the Space Race, and…
- The Great Cybersecurity Divide — Brendan Dowling, Steven Matainaho, Tupou Baravilala, Kuan Seah Chua
The global digital divide is shrinking — billions of people across the Asia-Pacific are gaining internet access via subsea cables and satellite networks — but the cybersecurity divide is not. As…
- Shaping the Future of AI Security Through Collaboration — Jamil Jaffer, Jason Clinton, Matt Knight, Sandra Joyce
Leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Threat Intelligence joined a policy panel at RSA Conference 2025 to assess how AI is reshaping the cybersecurity balance of power between attackers and…
- A Year(ish) of Countering Malicious Actors' Use of AI: What Have We Learned? — Sherrod DeGrippo, Cynthia Kaiser, Adam Maruyama, Lyn Brown
A panel of cybersecurity practitioners, law enforcement, and legal experts convened at RSA Conference 2025 to take stock of a year's worth of real-world lessons from countering AI-enabled cyber…
- Cyber Policy in a New Washington: Priorities from Pennsylvania Avenue — George Barnes, Frank Cilluffo, Mark Montgomery, Alexandra Seymour, Moira Bergin
As the first hundred days of the Trump administration concluded, a panel of former senior intelligence officials and active Capitol Hill staff directors gave an unusually candid assessment of where…
- The Future of Tech Policy: Balancing Innovation, Security, and Regulation — Paul Nakasone, Chris Krebs, Ted Schlein
Former NSA Director and Cyber Command Commander General Paul Nakasone and former CISA Director Chris Krebs, in conversation with veteran security investor Ted Schlein, delivered a frank assessment…
- Countering China's "Typhoon" Threats Targeting US Critical Infrastructure — Marc Raimondi, Brett Leatherman, Wendi Whitmore, Tim Maurer, John Carlin
A high-profile panel featuring FBI, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and former senior Justice Department officials gathered at RSA Conference 2025 to deliver an unambiguous assessment of the China…