And then I received the phone call Monday morning about what was happening. And on the Friday night, the week before we announced, I had just had a terrible feeling all weekend long. You couldn’t get out if you were on a corporate network and the VPN wasn’t – probably wasn’t deliv w ering the content you were used to. Lots of employees started experiencing these same issues–issues accessing data, communicating on RSA’s network.
And then I had seen some network issues and some servers being taken offline and that just immediately sent alarm bells up.
We had missed some code delivery for a client that was very, very out of the ordinary.ĭave Castignola, today the CRO at Bugcrowd, was a VP at RSA in 2011. But not everything was completely back to normal. The conference soon ended, and a couple weeks passed. With the incident contained, Sam went back to his more important business. And it was late night on the phone – being on the phone constantly with all the chaos of a show with some colleagues and we pretty much contained the incident Inconvenient, for sure, but probably nothing serious. The first time I got wind something was happening, I was at RSA conference and we had an incident.Īn incident. It especially wasn’t a good time for bad news. Among the wheeling and dealing, the snack bars and chatting with other CTOs and CSOs and listening to talks about this and that, there was hardly any time to think about anything else. executive at RSA at the time, he was busy organizing and shaking hands–probably too busy to actually enjoy any of the speeches.
Sam Curry was at the 2011 conference, naturally: as a Sr.
I’m the Chief Security Officer at Cybereason and a Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute. This is RSA Conference 2011–one of the biggest industry events of the year, the place to be if you’re in cybersecurity. Among the speakers lined up for the week are computer expert and author Bruce Schneier, physicist Michio Kaku, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn, and the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton. Nearby, in a giant conference hall, row after row of portable, semi-comfortable chairs are lined up with TV monitors above, so that people in the back can see what’s happening all the way up on stage. Walking through a truly giant expo floor, hundreds or maybe thousands of people pass by, chatting and visiting presentation booths set up by big tech companies from around the world. We’re at the big, beautiful Moscone Center in San Francisco.