Editor's Picks
Best Talks at RSA Conference 2025
Hand-picked from in-depth reviewer verdicts — the top 10 talks from this conference. Skip the noise, find the signal.
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The Intelligence War: Nation-State Cyber Threats
John Fokker
John Fokker, a former Dutch Marine and cybercrime investigator turned Trellix's Head of Threat Intelligence, delivered one of RSA 2025's most operationally grounded keynotes: a real-time case study of Black Basta, the ransomware organization whose leaked internal communications…
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Global Cyber Policy
Chris Inglis, Anne Keast-Butler
GCHQ Director Anne Keast-Butler, in conversation with former U.S. National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, delivered a keynote fireside chat on the state of global cyber cooperation. She argued that no single actor — government, industry, academia, or citizen — can secure the…
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AI and Cybersecurity
Sandra Joyce, Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
Sandra Joyce, VP of Google Threat Intelligence, used RSA 2025 to cut through AI hype with evidence drawn from real-world incident response: attackers are using models like Gemini as productivity tools, not to invent new attack vectors. On defense, AI is already delivering…
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Cyber Policy: A View from the White House
Alexei Bulazel, Stewart Baker
Alexei Bulazel, the Trump administration's Senior Director for Cyber at the National Security Council and its highest-ranking cyber official at the time of the conference, delivered a candid account of the administration's cyber priorities: countering Chinese infrastructure…
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Defeating Ransomware: A 360° Review of the RTF Four Years On
Megan Stifel, Carole House, Allan Liska, Michael Phillips, John Davis
Four years after the Ransomware Task Force published its landmark forty-eight-recommendation report, the panelists who built it — including the Executive Director, two working group co-chairs, the NSC official who turned RTF recommendations into government policy, and the…
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The Future of Tech Policy: Balancing Innovation, Security, and Regulation
Paul Nakasone, Chris Krebs, Ted Schlein
Former NSA Director and Cyber Command Commander General Paul Nakasone and former CISA Director Chris Krebs, in conversation with veteran security investor Ted Schlein, delivered a frank assessment of where the United States stands against its adversaries, what a more aggressive…
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Countering China's "Typhoon" Threats Targeting US Critical Infrastructure
Marc Raimondi, Brett Leatherman, Wendi Whitmore, Tim Maurer, John Carlin
A high-profile panel featuring FBI, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and former senior Justice Department officials gathered at RSA Conference 2025 to deliver an unambiguous assessment of the China Typhoon threat: PRC-affiliated actors have shifted from intellectual property…
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The Great Cybersecurity Divide
Brendan Dowling, Steven Matainaho, Tupou Baravilala, Kuan Seah Chua
The global digital divide is shrinking — billions of people across the Asia-Pacific are gaining internet access via subsea cables and satellite networks — but the cybersecurity divide is not. As connectivity reaches some of the world's most remote communities, scams…
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A Year(ish) of Countering Malicious Actors' Use of AI: What Have We Learned?
Sherrod DeGrippo, Cynthia Kaiser, Adam Maruyama, Lyn Brown
A panel of cybersecurity practitioners, law enforcement, and legal experts convened at RSA Conference 2025 to take stock of a year's worth of real-world lessons from countering AI-enabled cyber threats. While existing laws have proven more adaptable than feared, critical gaps…
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Cyber Policy in a New Washington: Priorities from Pennsylvania Avenue
George Barnes, Frank Cilluffo, Mark Montgomery, Alexandra Seymour, Moira Bergin
As the first hundred days of the Trump administration concluded, a panel of former senior intelligence officials and active Capitol Hill staff directors gave an unusually candid assessment of where cyber policy stands in Washington — what the new administration will do, what it…
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