One of the world’s most respected security expert Mikko Hypponen, chief research somer in Finnish F-Secure, reported Monday regrets that speaks to the RSA Conference in the spring. This was in protest against the disclosure of too close relationships between EMC-owned RSA and NSA.
Last weekend exploded the news that the prestigious security actor RSA had been paid 65 million from the North American Security NSA to insert a module with NSA backdoor in RSA security package delivers.
This package is used extensively in safety-oriented companies. Several modules are de-facto safety.
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– I do not expect that other speakers will cancel participation in the RSA Conference. Most speakers are North Americans, so why should they bother with monitoring that is not directed against them, but against everyone else. Monitoring operations run by North American intelligence agencies are directed against foreigners, Hypponen writes in an open letter canceling the boss of EMC and commander in the security division of EMC, according to the news service for Computerworld.
Hypponen has been an expert speaker for eight RSA conferences in the U.S., Japan and Europe. The slightly bitter tone reflects the tone of the reaction from a large, international security environment.
Weak rejection
It does not help that RSA rejects accusations. A company that sells security make it the basis of trust. They can therefore not place himself in a role where trust can be questioned.
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So far, nor answer from RSA without prejudice and rejection applies only parts of the allegations. Whether this is because the declaration is churned through an internal legal verbal compiler or RSA has something to hide is uncertain. Unclear is nevertheless large enough for the world’s security experts are neither impressed or convinced.
– RSA response to the allegations are round and ignoring direct more of the big, important elements of the allegations that have come. It has not helped that the security environment in any way have regained confidence in the company, says Carl Livitt, director of security consulting with advisors in Bishop Fox.
Thus, there is room for doubt and tillitstap.
Unique meeting
RSA Conferences are special in the sense that they have functioned more as collegiate conferences than pure product and solution conferences. Colleagues from highly competitive companies have put the competition aside a heavy academic conference. The aim of the RSA Conference has been more to discuss challenges and share solutions relating to IT systems.
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When heavyweights like Hypponen protest, it is thus little more than the problem of finding a speaker to one or another industry conference. It frames the unique professional in the event itself.
RSA Conference in question in this round takes place in late February. Other speakers come from Microsoft, Juniper Networks, Cisco, McAfee, Symantec and Hewlett-Packard. Several of these companies are near the trench warfare the rest of the year, but kept its “Christmas Peace” under RSA conference.
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