RSAC is known for its infosec content including deep technical dives into cryptography, governance, and compliance. But hidden throughout the week-long agenda are gems of content on network security, network architecture, and wireless.

As many of you know, I’ve served on the RSAC Program Committee for many years, and this year I had the pleasure of again leading the Technology Infrastructure Operations track with my partners in crime, Chuck Kesler and Dan Houser. But, not all the juicy infrastructure sessions are in our track.

Here are my top picks for network security professionals at RSAC 2022. Keep scrolling for more tips on navigating the agenda.

MONDAY

• Mon, 8:30am
  Cyber Defense Matrix: Revolutions
  with Sounil Yu
  If you’re interesting in mapping your defensive tools and network architecture to a great model, don’t miss this session. I recently got my hands on Sounil’s book “Cyber Defense Matrix” and it’s a great resource for finding blind spots and categorizing products/solutions.
• Mon, 9:40am
  Securing Entry Points and Active Directory to Prevent Ransomware Attacks
• Mon, 1:10pm
  Strong Story to Tell: Top 10 Mistakes by Administrators About Remote Work
• Mon, 2:20pm
  Network Based Threat Hunting: Lessons Learned, Techniques to Share
  with Tal Darsan and Etay Maor of Cato Networks

TUESDAY

• Tues, 9:40am
  Thinking Like a 5G Attacker
• Tues, 9:40am
  Getting The Most Out Of Sysmon
  Infrastructure and Operations Track
• Tues, 4:45-6:00pm
  Offensive Capture the Flag 101 – Guided Beginner CTF
  If you’ve always wondered what’s involved in a capture-the-flag (CTF) this is a great way to get introduced and led by facilitators each step of the way!

WEDNESDAY

• Wed, 9:40am
  BoF: Mid-Size Focus: Getting Started with Zero Trust for Remote & On-Prem Users
  with ME Jennifer Minella
  This is a roundtable, or “Birds of a Feather” session that’s limited to around 20 attendees. This is not a presentation but instead I’ll be leading a conversation with the attendees. It’s a great time to connect with peers dealing with similar challenges and projects.
• Wed, 10:45am
  Adaptively Fingerprinting Users/Applications at Scale with GPU Acceleration
  with Sr. Data Scientists from NVIDIA,
• (Psssst at 11:30am I’ll be in the RSAC Bookstore for a book signing of my latest title, “Wireless Security Architecture” just published with Wiley!)

THURSDAY

• Thurs, 8:30am
  Power of DNS as an Added Defense Against Modern Attacks
  with Artsiom Holub, Sr. Research Analyst Cisco Umbrella/OpenDNS
  *Infrastructure and Operations Track
• Thurs, 8:30am
  Protective DNS, DNS Encryption, & Zero-Trust: Tackling NSA Guidance
• Thus, 9:40am
  The Time is Now: Criticality of Time Synchronization & Information Security
  with our friend Ben Rothke
  *Infrastructure and Operations Track
• Thurs, 9:40am
  Uncovering “BadAlloc” Memory Vulnerabilities in Millions of IoT Devices
  with Tamir Ariel and Omri Ben-Bassat, Security Researchers with Section 52, Microsoft
• Thurs, 11am
  I’ll be at the Juniper Networks booth leading a community discussion on Zero Trust – come join me!
  Booth #6071 in the North Expo Hall
• Thurs, 1:00pm
  How to Secure Private 5G Networks
  Srini Balasubramanian, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Celona
  *Infrastructure and Operations Track
  I’m really looking forward to this session as Srini dives into 5G authentication, improvements of 5G of 4G, comparison to Wi-Fi, and how this can be used to further secure private cellular networks (aka 5G LANs, CBRS in the U.S.).

FIRST TIME ATTENDEE?

RSAC and we (the Program Committee) are hosting several First-Time Attendees Roundtable Discussions & Networking. In the RSAC agenda (see next section), simply search for “First-Time Attendees” in the bottom search box. the three sessions will appear in the search results.

THE RSAC 2022 AGENDA

Find the agenda online at https://www.rsaconference.com/usa/agenda/full-agenda .

Jump to the search box at the bottom of the left navigation to search for keywords such as “5G”, “IoT”, “network”, and “zero trust”. You can also search for company names or speaker names.

NETWORK SECURITY IN THE RSAC EXPO HALL

You can view the full list of exhibitors and sponsors at https://www.rsaconference.com/usa/expo-and-sponsors. Here are a few that caught my eye.

• Arctic Wolf
  South Expo Booth 1155
• Arista Networks
  North Expo Booth 4308
• BeyondTrust
  South Expo Booth 3311
• Cisco
  North Expo Booth 6045 and South 1127
• FireMon
  North Expo Booth 5779
• Fortinet
  North Expo Booth 5855
• Forescout
  North Expo Booth 6345
• Illumio
  North Expo Booth 5555
• Infoblox
  North Expo Booth 4624
• Juniper Networks
  North Expo Booth 6071
• JupiterOne
  South Expo Booth 0325
• Keeper Security
  South Expo Booth 1649
• Microsoft
  North Expo Booth 6059
• Nazomi Networks
  South Expo Booth 3233
• Perimeter 81
  South Expo Booth 1849
• Rubrik
  North Expo Booth 4628
• Splunk
  North Expo Booth 5865

Enjoy your time at RSAC and I’ll see you there!

-jj