RSA Conference 2024 runs from May 6-9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The following is a roundup of security-related news items surrounding the event.
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RSA announced Reality Defender as the winner of its annual RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest. The “Most Innovative Startup 2024,” Reality Defender was selected by a panel of judges for helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes. Utilizing a multi-model approach, Reality Defender’s deepfake detection platform and API extends robust defense against platforms producing AI-generated media that empowers teams to identify fraud, disinformation and harmful content in real time.
In its 19th year, the RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest is the leading platform for startups to showcase groundbreaking technologies that have the potential to transform the cybersecurity industry.
“Deep fakes are the number one financial threat to enterprises,” said Ben Colman, the co-founder and CEO of Reality Defender. “We look forward to scaling our solution to solve the deep fake problem now, tomorrow and forever. We appreciate the opportunity to be a part of the RSA Conference innovation sandbox contest and showcase our solution to the cybersecurity world.”
Meanwhile, as a new crop of AI-related threats emerges from the rapid adoption of GenAI tools within application development, cloud-native application security vendor Checkmarx (booth #1427) is on the scene. At RSA, Checkmarx forged a secure path forward for enterprise development and AppSec teams.
The new AI solutions within the Checkmarx One platform are equipping developers and AppSec teams with new ways to check and remediate vulnerabilities in real-time, including:
- AI Security for Copilot: Scans code generated by GitHub Copilot in the IDE, detecting security issues and ensuring AI-generated code adheres to security best practices.
- AI Security Champion: Introduces auto-remediation for SAST vulnerabilities. AI Security Champion significantly speeds up time to remediation by suggesting replacement code that removes vulnerabilities detected by Checkmarx SAST.
- Real-time, in-IDE scanning: Provides real-time feedback to developers as they write code within their IDEs. It scans the developer’s code as it’s written, detecting security issues in the code and presenting them within the IDE. Instant feedback ensures that the developer’s code is well- protected and secure from the start, while maintaining productivity.
Additionally, a new partnership with Prompt Security is designed to further extend this secure, streamlined approach to preventing code and IP leakage.
In other news, the RSA Conference’s list of keynote speakers and sessions is now available. This includes:
- Homeland Security in the Age of Artificial Intellligence – May 7, 8:30AM PT – Rumman Chowdhury (U.S. science envoy, artificial intelligence, CEO and co-founder, Humane Intelligence) and Alejandro Mayorkas (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)
- A World On Fire: Playing Defense in a Digitized World…and Winning – May 7, 8:55AM PT – Jen Easterly (director, CISA), Joseph Menn (reporter, Washington Post) and Chris Krebs (chief intelligence and public policy officer, SentinelOne)
- Cryptographers’ Panel – May 7, 9:40AM PT – Adi Shamir (Borman professor of computer science, The Weizmann Institute, Israel), Tal Rabin (senior principal applied scientist and professor, AWS and UPenn), Whitfield Diffie (ForMemRS honorary fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), Debbie Taylor Moore (VP and senior partner, cybersecurity, IBM Consulting) and Craig Gentry (CTO, TripleBlind)
- In the Age of AI, Everything is the Art of Possible – May 7, 10:45AM PT – Eileen Isagon Skyers (media art coordinator)
- Securing the Modern Application: From Code to Infrastructure – May 7, 10:50AM PT – Boaz Gelbord (SVP and CSO, Akamai)
- Securing New Limits: Protecting the Pathway for AI Innovation – May 7, 11:10AM PT – Kevin Skapinetz (VP of security strategy, IBM) and Rosa Bolger (distinguished engineer and VP of cyber defense and technology, IBM)
- Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Double-Edged Sword – May 7, 11:35PM PT – Lisa Monaco (deputy attorney general, U.S. Justice Department), Fei-Fei Li (co-director of Stanford Institute for Human Centered AI, Stanford University) and Miriam Vogel (chair, NAIC and president and CEO, EqualAI)
- The State of Our Cyber Is Strong: The View from the White House – May 7, 1:15PM PT – Harry Coker (national cyber director, White House Office of the National Cyber Director) and Sue Gordon (former principal deputy director of national intelligence)
- AI and Democracy – May 7, 2:25PM PT – Bruce Schneier (security technologist, researcher and lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School)
- Photographing Nature: Expanding Human Understanding – May 7, 3:30PM PT – Doris Mitsch (artist)
- Securing AI: What We’ve Learned and What Comes Next – May 7, 3:35PM PT – Vasu Jakkal (CVP, Microsoft Security Business)
- Exploring the Universe, Quantum Bit by Quantum Bit – May 7, 3:55PM PT – Brian Cox (experimental physicist)
ChannelVision will be on the floor for RSA Conference 2024. To request an on-site meeting at the event, email gerald@bekabusinessmedia.com. To submit RSA channel-related news for coverage, email brady@bekabusinessmedia.com.
