RSA - Everywhere you want to be

05.02.2007
The RSA Conference is expanding, a person might say, to fill the size of the need for good security info. You've got the golden ticket to the Moscone Center, your shoes are comfortable, and your expense reports are prepared for the shock of downtown San Francisco. Your co-workers, the ones stuck back at the office for the week, hate you. Life is good.

Sure it is, pal. Look at the conference schedule and despair, because once again your clone army isn't ready to attend the event with you, fanning out to catch all the panels and so forth you're going to miss.

Good security info? No lack of it at RSA. What you need are clones or time. Barring more of either, you'd take a cheat sheet to which events seem most likely to give you the feeling that though you couldn't be everywhere at RSA, you were where you wanted to be. We here at Computerworld.com will be covering as many of these events as we can, of course; keep an eye on the Security Knowledge Center and our security blogs for more information. Here's what to expect, day by day:

Monday

Come on, now. If you're on board for Monday, you've already selected the tutorial of your dreams -- "Learn to Speak Crypto" (event M11-TUT, located in Burgundy Room 130, 9:00 a.m.), perhaps. If you're still in transit, take a moment to contemplate this year's conference inspiration, Renaissance polymath and father of Western cryptography Leon Battista Alberti. Reflect glumly on ability of Alberti to pursue painting, architecture, mathematics, a rigorous workout schedule, etc. while developing the first known Western polyalphabetic cipher. Note that Alberti never had to file quarterly reports and didn't have e-mail. Suspect the march of progress is headed backwards.

Tuesday