Happy Days at the RSA Conference 2006

By Seth Ross, CISSP

These are boom days for the information security business in general and the encryption business in particular. The spirit of the boom was evident at the 15th annual gathering of cryptographers and the information security industry in San Jose, California. The show bustled with security vendors and a record number of attendees: over 14,000. The dynamics of the boom have been driven by a variety of general factors: increased mobility and connectedness -- and thus risk -- and by a single piece of legislation: California’s data breach reporting law, SB1386. More...

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Security Predictions for 2006

Computer security is inherently unpredictable. Nonetheless, it’s possible (though risky) to extrapolate from current trends into the near future. More...

Newsletter Archive

	Welcome to the Edge	Volume 6, Number 3	2005-11-30	HTML	TEXT
	Attack of the Data Thieves	Volume 6, Number 2	2005-08-23	HTML	TEXT
	Defeating the Rule of Possession	Volume 6, Number 1	2005-01-25	HTML	TEXT
	Donating Old Equipment:	Volume 5, Number 2	2004-12-27	HTML	TEXT
	RSA 2004: Magic Carpet Ride	Volume 5, Number 1	2004-03-12	HTML	TEXT
	Creating a New Privacy Principle	Volume 4, Number 7	2003-12-03	HTML	TEXT
	Again?	Volume 4, Number 6	2003-11-13	HTML	TEXT
	Snake Oil Encryption	Volume 4, Number 5	2003-08-01	HTML	TEXT
	Common Criteria — Part 2	Volume 4, Number 4	2003-05-11	HTML	TEXT
	"Only for a moment" — RSA 2003	Volume 4, Number 3	2003-04-25	HTML	TEXT
	Common Criteria — Part 1	Volume 4, Number 2	2003-03-27	HTML	TEXT
	Security Through Usability	Volume 4, Number 1	2003-02-24	HTML	TEXT
	Book Review — The Art of Deception	Volume 3, Number 4	2002-12-23	HTML	TEXT
	Defending the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace	Volume 3, Number 3	2002-11-18	HTML	TEXT
	The Joys of Full Disk Encryption	Volume 3, Number 2	2002-06-18	HTML	TEXT
	Windows EXPloitable	Volume 3, Number 1	2002-01-22	HTML	TEXT
	Strong Crypto Redux, AES, Password Recovery	Volume 2, Number 8	2001-12-07	HTML	TEXT
	Strong Country, Strong Crypto	Volume 2, Number 7	2001-09-20	HTML	TEXT
	Information Wants to Be Free	Volume 2, Number 6	2001-08-01	HTML	TEXT
	Secrets and Lies	Volume 2, Number 5	2001-06-26	HTML	TEXT
	Crypto Reading List, Part I	Volume 2, Number 4	2001-05-29	HTML	TEXT
	The War is Over	Volume 2, Number 3	2001-04-20	HTML	TEXT
	The best things in life are free	Volume 2, Number 2	2001-04-04	HTML	TEXT
	Learn to Forget	Volume 2, Number 1	2001-02-05	HTML	TEXT
	Warm, Gushy Microsoft	Volume 1, Number 11	2000-12-07	HTML	TEXT
	To Lose a Laptop	Volume 1, Number 10	2000-10-19	HTML	TEXT
	RIP vs. Carnivore	Volume 1, Number 9	2000-08-31	HTML	TEXT
	Carnivore, the Fourth Amendment, and You	Volume 1, Number 8	2000-07-31	HTML	TEXT
	Attack of the Email Snoops	Volume 1, Number 7	2000-06-26	HTML	TEXT
	Ten General Security Rules 6-10	Volume 1, Number 6	2000-05-22	HTML	TEXT
	General Security Rules 1-5	Volume 1, Number 5	2000-05-04	HTML	TEXT
	Attack of the Web Snoop	Volume 1, Number 4	2000-03-23	HTML	TEXT
	Attack of the Packet Monkeys	Volume 1, Number 3	2000-02-23	HTML	TEXT
	Where to Find the Y2K Bugs	Volume 1, Number 2	2000-01-13	HTML	TEXT
	Watching the Watchers	Volume 1, Number 1	1999-12-07	HTML	TEXT