Ok everyone. After a crazy hiatus (more about that later), we are relaunching and plan to be better than ever. Life gets ahead of you sometimes, then you have an event… like a virus (and this is no Melissa) that slaps you and says “HEY DUDE” LIFE. Welcome to 2020, and COVID-19. Engineered? Maybe. Scary? Heck yes. Gonna stop us from having a great RSA? No Freaking Way.
So despite the prevalence of masks on people that usually don’t even wash their hands when leaving a restroom (GROSS, you know who you are…), and companies like IBM, AT&T Security and Verizon dropping out of the conference, the show must go on. Oh and IBM? People DO get fired for buying you now. AT&T, you don’t scale, and Verizon, you’re a great phone services company, but we don’t care about your security offerings anyway. (Opinions expressed here are my own, NOT my company, but you can have them if you want em.)
Things we are excited about in no particular order…
If you know me the way some of you do you will swear I’m saying this under duress, but Microsoft. YES that Micro$oft. Indirectly this company has payed my bills for the last three decades. And I’ve had a fascination with them since elementary school at KSDA just up the road from Redmond. They’re no longer just a killer tech marketing company, they’re actually investing real money in cyber security. To the tune of >$1bn year. That’s more than 10 of my favorite boutique favorites combined. And they’re focusing on some thingsthat matter. Like Mobile
Phishing… No, I’m serious. People are missing the point of something as simple as DMARC. And despite all the vendor consolidation out there, I heard the story of “don’ beat em, join em from the Valimail CEO, Alex Garcia-Tobar. And it made a ton of sense
I’m late for my next happy hour….talk to you in a minute. Stay safe and for God’s sake, cover your mouth when you sneeze.