RSA Conference Event Intelligence Feed — ExtraHop

What you'll learn

• RSA Conference 2024 arrives at a moment of unusual institutional stress, with 40,000 security professionals converging in San Francisco as criminal liability, ransomware, and nation-state threats all intensify simultaneously.
• CISO indictments set the tone for the agenda, with the SEC's prosecution of the SolarWinds security chief prompting multiple sessions on how personal legal exposure is fundamentally changing the role.
• That liability pressure connects directly to the materiality debate, with a dedicated learning lab examining how organizations should disclose cyber incidents to the SEC before regulators make that decision for them.
• Ransomware provided the historical backdrop, with a keynote marking ten years of corporate ransomware attacks and asking whether the industry has learned enough to change the trajectory of the next decade.
• The answer, at least partially, lies in threat hunting methodology, with one session revisiting frameworks built nearly a decade ago and explaining why the assumptions behind them no longer hold.
• Geopolitics framed the broader stakes, with ExtraHop's own session connecting active conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East to the cyber threats organizations should be preparing for now.
• The through-line connecting every major session was the same: the industry's most pressing challenges in 2024 are no longer primarily technical, they are legal, political, and strategic.

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