Sample Agendas

First time or seasoned attendee at RSA Conference? Looking for the best way to maximize your experience and plan your week? Either way we’re here to help you get started.

We’ve consulted with some Conference insiders, experienced attendees and industry experts to find out how they’ll be spending their week at RSA Conference 2008. Capitalize on their insight to customize your planning and make this year’s event a unique learning experience.

Check out the sample agendas below from the following:

  • Developer
  • First-Time Attendee
  • Chief Technology Officer


 

DEVELOPER

CTO

FIRST TIME ATTENDEE

Tuesday

Keynotes

KEY-101 - Arthur W. Coviello, Jr., Executive Vice President, EMC Corporation and President, RSA, The Security Division of EMC

KEY-103 - Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft

KEY-104 - The Cryptographers Panel

1:30 PM

DEV-105 - Real World Key Management: News from the Trenches

DEF-105 - The Seven Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques, and What's Coming

DEF-105 - The Seven Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques, and What's Coming

3:00 PM

IAM-106 - Digital Identity and Service-Oriented Architecture - Hope and Glory

DEV-106 - Cryptographic Security for Ruby on Rails Web Services

EXP-106 - The Internet is Not the Wild West: Google's Approach to Security

4:10 PM

DEV-107 - Security Usability: The New Challenge

DEF-107 - Data Leakage CTO Panel: Valuable New Product or Check the Box Feature

BUS-107 - Compliance Megatrends: The Future of Information Security

5:40 PM

IAM-108 - How Might OpenID Apply to an Enterprise?

IAM-108 - How Might OpenID Apply to an Enterprise?

EXP-108 - How to Take Down the Power Grid

Wednesday

8:00 AM

SOA-201 - Java and Web Services Security in Action

EXP-201 - Darwin and Security: What Evolution Tells Us About the Past and Future of Security

EXP-201 - Darwin and Security: What Evolution Tells Us About the Past and Future of Security

9:10 AM

SPO-202 - Security 2.0

HT1-202 - Uncovering the Foundations of Rootkits

DEPL-202 - Driving Trusted Federations with Standardized Identity Assurance Criteria

10:40 AM

DEV-203 - Mass HysteRIA: Rich Internet Application Security Patterns and Anti-Patterns

HT1-203 - Cross-Site Request Forgery: The Sleeping Giant of Website Vulnerabilities

DEF-203 - Risk Mitigation Strategies: Lessons Learned from Actual Insider Attacks

Keynotes

KEY-208 - The New Security Mandate: Protecting the "Infinite Perimeter"

KEY-209 - Jeff Hawkins, Founder, Numenta

Thursday

8:00 AM

HT1-301 - Locking the Door: Backdoor Threats to Applications

BUS-301 - Life After Vista: What is Next for Windows Security?

BUS-301 - Life After Vista: What is Next for Windows Security?

9:10 AM

STA-302 - Extended Validation: Raising the Bar for Internet Trust

DEV-302 - SOA/XML Threat Model and New SOA/Web 2.0 Attacks/Threats

DEPL-302 - Practical Risk Metrics: Case Study and Demo

10:40 AM

CASE-303 - Case Study: Implementing Open Source in a Corporate Environment

HT2-303 - Ajax Applications: A Blueprint for Disaster

CASE-303 - Case Study: Implementing Open Source in a Corporate Environment

Keynotes

KEY-306 - Dave Hansen, Strategic Security: The Evolving Role of the Security Professional

KEY-308 - Malcolm Gladwell, Author, "The Tipping Point", "Blink", and "Viewing the World Through a Different Prism"

 Don't Miss the Codebreaker's Bash!

Friday

9:00 AM

SPO-401 - Multi-factor Secure Authentication for Logical and Physical Access Control

DEV-401 - Securing the New Web 2.0 Frontier

DEPL-401 - Secure VoIP? Think Again. A Practical Guide to Locking Down VoIP

10:05 AM

EXP-402 - Virtualization and Security: A Technical Forecast

HT1-402 - Designing and Attacking DRM: Reversing vs. Renewability

LAW-402 - Anatomy of An Incident

11:10 AM

STA-403 - What's New with XACML, the Access Control Standard?

AUTH-403 - Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA) in Action at Bank of New York

DEF-403 - Delivering an Integrated, Efficient Data Protection Controls

Keynotes

KEY-405 - Herbert (Hugh) Thompson, Ph.D., Chief Security Strategist, People Security