At the end of April, my colleague, Katherine Oliveri, and I attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco for the first time. We joined nearly 30 members of our #HWCyberSquad on-site and spent the week supporting client activations, attending media events, and networking with leaders across the cybersecurity industry. We left feeling energized and grateful for the chance to attend such a critical industry conference.
The RSAC conference (which recently underwent a rebranding to cement the “C” in its name) is the top security trade show of the year, covering a wide breadth of cybersecurity topics for professionals from around the world. This year’s overarching theme is Many Voices. One Community, highlighting the vibrant community of innovators and thinkers that are brought together to counter threats and embrace new challenges in cybersecurity.
This past June, along with my colleague Haley White, I had the opportunity to attend Splunk’s .conf24 user conference in Las Vegas. This year’s conference agenda spotlighted product announcements, media panels, and so much more for the thousands of developers, security professionals and engineers who attended. It also offered us an opportunity to meet with clients and reporters from all over the world.
This month, thousands of security practitioners, CISOs, government officials, reporters, PR people (including a dozen of our own #HWCyberSquad members), and more flocked to Moscone Center in San Francisco to come together to dig into the biggest trends driving the cybersecurity industry.
It’s that time of year again! Security professionals across the U.S. are flocking to the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the annual RSA Conference, a place to celebrate the ever-changing cybersecurity world. With this year’s theme as The Art of Possible there is no doubt conversations on and off the show floor will focus on how we can leverage today’s most innovative technologies and creative minds to shape a more secure world.
No one thinks it will happen to them, but data breaches and hacks are all too common. And now that the new disclosure rule from the SEC, making publicly traded companies required to disclose “material” cybersecurity incidents to the agency went into effect on December 18th, it’s time to make sure your business is prepared not only for a breach, but everything that comes with reporting it. Companies that this rule governs now are required to disclose their cyber incident within four days “after the company determines the incident to be material,” according to Erik Gerding, director of the division of corporation finance at the SEC.
To show just how quickly things change, the Aspen Cyber Summit was held last week, and unlike the year prior, where it wasn't mentioned once, the agenda this year was brimming with conversations about generative AI. The #HWCyberSquad spent the day at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, supporting clients, attending talks, and meeting reporters. Here's what we learned:
Black Hat was back this year, and bigger than ever! The #HWCybersquad spent a week in Vegas supporting clients, attending sessions, meeting reporters, and taking in “Hacker Summer Camp.” Here’s what we learned:
When the United States government founded the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in 2018, it marked a significant step toward combating digital threats. CISA's key initiatives, Secure By Design-Default and the Joint Defense Cyber Collaborative (JCDC), aim to improve national cybersecurity by fostering collaborations between the public and private sectors.
There are 39,000 cybersecurity companies worldwide, each competing to become a trusted source in the industries they serve. How do you stand out and demonstrate your expertise, especially when an incident hits? The answer is, a robust and strategic rapid response program.
Beyond its news and editorial coverage, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) hosts quarterly virtual and in-person forums. These events capitalize on the WSJ's news team's expertise to create a space for discussing key business trends.
After years of disruption and uncertainty, trade shows are back in action as key sites for the tech industry's evolution. These events are incubators for emerging trends and hot topics, and serve as more than showcases of new technology — they act as catalysts for the future course of the industry.
Following the RSA Conference, thecybersecurity community is now looking forward to Black Hat USA 2023, scheduled from August 5-10 in Las Vegas. In its 26th year, the event has become the go-to for unveiling the latest in cutting-edge cyber research, developments and trends, and promises a deep dive into emerging threats, critical vulnerabilities and advanced defense tactics.
AWS plays a central role in the cloud strategy of organizations around the world, which makes the AWS re:Inforce conference one of the most consequential cloud security events of the year. AWS re:Inforce 2023 tackled the evolving challenges of cloud security and showcased innovative solutions and strategies within the AWS community.
Five years ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced AWS re:Inforce, a premier tech event focused on the important issues in cybersecurity today — compliance, identity, privacy and more. This year's event will be held June 13-14 in Anaheim, California. Highwire is the home agency to multiple AWS partners, and we're excited that nine of our clients are sponsoring AWS re:Inforce this year.
It’s a wrap on RSA 2023! We had a whirlwind of a week gaining new security insights, meeting with clients and reporters and networking with the largest community of cyber professionals. Given the valuable insight and connections Highwire team members gathered onsite (and virtually) we wanted to share a recap of key takeaways that can guide future communication initiatives.
I recently connected with tech reporter extraordinaire (and one of my personal favorite people to work with), Jessica Hardcastle, the managing editor of SDxCentral covering next-generation data centers, security, and software-defined storage. We chatted about what she’s been working on during COVID-19 and how the pandemic has shaped her coverage.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a number of disruptions in the world of tech industry events – and next week’s now virtual Black Hat is no exception. In response, businesses are getting creative and rethinking their approaches to the usual networking, presentations and panels we see at in-person conferences. This week, Highwire’s Security Practice is hosting a series of virtual panels titled “On The Record: Cyber Edition” featuring a lineup of executives from top clients to highlight some of the key topics we’ll see at this year’s virtual Black Hat.
With the current media climate, it’s more important than ever to understand reporters’ news beats to make sure the precarious reporter to PR professional relationship remains mutually beneficial. I had the privilege of speaking to a long-time media friendly of Highwire, Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading. Kelly has been a member of the Dark Reading team for almost 15 years covering security, and was recently selected as one of the Top 10 Cybersecurity journalists in the U.S.
No one thinks it will happen to them, but data breaches and hacks are all too common. And now that the new disclosure rule from the SEC, making publicly traded companies required to disclose “material” cybersecurity incidents to the agency 
When the United States government founded the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (
Beyond its news and editorial coverage, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) hosts quarterly virtual and in-person forums. These events capitalize on the WSJ's news team's expertise to create a space for discussing key business trends.
With the current media climate, it’s more important than ever to understand reporters’ news beats to make sure the precarious reporter to PR professional relationship remains mutually beneficial. I had the privilege of speaking to a long-time media friendly of Highwire, Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading. Kelly has been a member of the Dark Reading team for almost 15 years covering security, and was recently selected as one of the Top 10 Cybersecurity journalists in the U.S. 
