Highlights and Events

RSA Conference is the best place to meet your peers, network and connect. Some of the "don’t miss" highlights and networking events from 2008 were:

• First-Time Attendee Orientation
  The scoop on hot tips and top picks from long-time Conference goers
  
• Networking 101
  Tactics and methods you need to expand your personal connections
  
• Welcome Reception
  Exclusive access to preview what Conference exhibitors are showcasing
  
• Security Smackdown
  Live demonstrations, simulated website vulnerability testing, plus the industry’s top minds faced off to answer questions on the most controversial topics in information security
  
• Book Signings 
  Keynote speakers Jeff Hawkins, Malcolm Gladwell and the Cryptographer's Panel, plus other top industry authors
  
• SC Magazine US Awards 2008
  Celebrating the best products, services and security teams in the industry today
  
• Interoperability Demonstrations
  • OSIS User-centric identity network interoperability demonstrated how users can ‘click-in’ to sites via self-issued and managed information cards, or i-cards
  • OASIS open standards consortium demonstrated interoperability of the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) 2.0
    
• Special Forum: National Cyber Security Readiness – A Bridge Too Far?
  A panel of leading experts from the public and private sectors discussed the most pressing challenges to our national cyber security
  
• Town Hall Meeting on Cyber Storm II – The Most Comprehensive Cyber Exercise in U.S. History
  Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Greg Garcia joined by an interactive dialogue on the initial findings and lessons learned from the most comprehensive cyber security exercise in U.S. history
  
• Special Forum: Risk Resilience – The Road to Web 3.0
  CNBC presenter Simon Hobbs chaired a discussion on risk resilience, Enterprise 2.0 and the semantic web with three high-profile boardroom-level innovators
  
• Table for 6 Dinners
  Pre-reserved tables at a number of restaurants throughout San Francisco where single diners or small groups can dine out with other attendees.
  
• (ISC)2 Members Reception
  Special members-only networking event
  
• RSA Conference Codebreakers Bash
  An always exciting evening of great food, drink and entertainment