Comments on: Where have all the good RSA talks gone? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/security-bytes/where-have-all-the-good-rsa-talks-gone/ A SearchSecurity.com blog Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:20:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: George Starcher http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/security-bytes/where-have-all-the-good-rsa-talks-gone/#comment-524 George Starcher Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:46:59 +0000 http://security.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/10/where-have-all-the-good-rsa-talks-gone/#comment-524 This was my first year at RSA. I was disappointed over all in most of the sessions. In a lot of them, the speakers did not either speak to the topic title of their session or took 40 minutes to reach it after defining all basics first. I went to a session calling itself a "practical guide" to voip security. There was not much practical nor guide like during the talk. Don't even get me started on how hollow the Cyber Storm 2 panel was. As bad as vendor marketecture keynotes are... What was the deal with that guy from Oracle? Did he not even research the level of his audience? Why did he feel the need to define terms like "separation of duties" ? I agree that there were a few gems, but mostly I only took away a few new things. This was my first year and most likely my last. I can get a lot more from other sources when I can only get funding for one conference/course a year. And the several real good talks I did see, you can meet those folks in other venues like Joshua Wright on wireless security. This was my first year at RSA. I was disappointed over all in most of the sessions. In a lot of them, the speakers did not either speak to the topic title of their session or took 40 minutes to reach it after defining all basics first. I went to a session calling itself a “practical guide” to voip security. There was not much practical nor guide like during the talk. Don’t even get me started on how hollow the Cyber Storm 2 panel was.

As bad as vendor marketecture keynotes are… What was the deal with that guy from Oracle? Did he not even research the level of his audience? Why did he feel the need to define terms like “separation of duties” ? I agree that there were a few gems, but mostly I only took away a few new things.

This was my first year and most likely my last. I can get a lot more from other sources when I can only get funding for one conference/course a year. And the several real good talks I did see, you can meet those folks in other venues like Joshua Wright on wireless security.

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