Maryland is headed west to RSA 2016

Maryland is headed west – to San Francisco, for RSA™ 2016, the nation’s premier information security conference which kicks off Monday at the Moscone Center. The Maryland Department of Commerce will lead the CyberMaryland delegation to the conference, which draws more than 30,000 attendees and runs through Friday, March 4.

Maryland cybersecurity companies, federal agencies, and educational institutions will be well represented at RSA™ 2016. More than 30 Maryland-based cyber experts will be featured as speakers during the conference, including:

• Ian Amit, vice president of ZeroFOX, will present The Newest Element of Risk Metrics: Social Media. Based in Baltimore, ZeroFOX helps organizations protect their employees and families from threats coming via social media.
• Admiral Michael S. Rogers, who heads the U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, will deliver remarks on Tuesday, March 1. Both agencies are headquartered at Fort George G. Meade, Md.
• Nate Lesser, Deputy Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in Rockville, Md., will cover the topic of Wireless Infusion Pumps: Securing Hospitals’ Most Ubituitous Medical Device on Wednesday, March 2. Established in 2012 through a partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the State of Maryland, and Montgomery County, Md., the NCCoE brings together cybersecurity experts from industry, academia and government to create solutions to security challenges.
• Matthew Green, Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, present Can Government Encryption Backdoors and Privacy Co-exist? Is It an Oxymoron?

Deep Run Security is joining the CyberMaryland delegation to RSA for the first time. Based in Baltimore, the company has created SPECTRUM 2.0, an engagement and executive portal to provide retailer/hospitality, healthcare and financial executives a risk-based way to rapidly identify, quantify and manage “operational cyber risk” – the risk of breach posed by human and business process errors.

RedOwl, winner of RSA’s 2014 Innovation Sandbox competition, will feature product demonstrations in their booth, #4602 in the North Hall at the Moscone Center, during RSA. The company combines unstructured data – communications and voice – with structured data like server logs, physical security, and print logs to help identify and disrupt corporate espionage and other cyber intrusions.

The NCCoE and the Maryland Department of Commerce will host a Global Partnership Lunch on Tuesday, March 1, during which attendees will hear about partnering opportunities with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. That evening, Maryland Commerce and the bwtech@umbc business incubator will host a Cybertini networking event that has already attracted more than 20 registrants, including RSA. Throughout the conference, Col. Ken McCreedy, USA (Ret.), Maryland Commerce’s cyber development director, will meet with U.S. and international companies and promote Maryland’s burgeoning cybersecurity sector.

For updates throughout RSA™ 2015, follow @MDBiz on Twitter. Col. McCreedy and other members of the Maryland delegation are available for inquiries and interview requests. For information, contact Maureen Kilcullen, Maureen.Kilcullen@Maryland.gov or 410.206.7171.

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