It had been a few years, so with much anticipation, and not a little trepidation, 26,000 people descended on San Francisco for the RSA Conference. Vendors were eager to get back out in front of a live audience and the expo floor was tightly packed with more than 400 exhibitors. Themes emerged in numerous services. Let's start with data security. With all the talk of application security needing to "shift left", (i.e., embedding security processes into the development pipeline to reduce the attack surface of code before it enters production), it is only natural that data security should move in the same direction.

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According to the Cloud Security Alliance's 2021 report, "State of Cloud Security Concerns, Challenges and Incidents," 41% of participants were "unsure" whether they had experienced a cloud security incident in the recent year.And that percentage doubled since 2019.Cloud security threats are on the rise, and more organizations are using two or more public cloud providers to meet organizational needs. These cloud environments typically host sensitive business and customer data, critical applications, and other high-risk information.

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The Identity, Authentication, and Access (IAA) market is set to grow by 13.4% in revenues in 2021 reaching $28.9bn, according to Omdia's latest Identity Authentication Access Market Tracker. During 2021, the increasing number of security breaches and attacks has brought into even sharper focus the need for strong identity, authentication, and access technology. Identity has never been more important for cybersecurity than now. In this sense, COVID-19 merely turbocharged a tendency that had been underway for several years, i.

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Welcome to the Dark Reading News Desk, which will be livestreamed from Black Hat USA at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Dark Reading editors Becky Bracken, Fahmida Rashid, and Kelly Jackson Higgins will host Black Hat newsmakers ranging from independent researchers and threat hunters to reverse engineers and other top experts in security, on Wednesday, Aug. 10, and Thursday, Aug. 11, from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Pacific Time. Among the highlights: On Wednesday, Dark Reading will be joined at the Black Hat News Desk by Allison Wikoff from PwC, to talk about the latest in job-themed APT social engineering scams; Brett Hawkins from IBM, to discuss supply chain management systems abuse; and many more.

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Looking Back at 25 Years of Black Hat The Black Hat USA conference's silver jubilee is an opportunity to remember its defining moments, the impact it has made on the security community, and its legacy.

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In August 2020, the US and Mexico established a working group and conducted a first-of-its-kind dialogue regarding mutual cybersecurity concerns. While the two countries have been partnering to counter illicit drug trafficking for decades, only recently has real progress been made related to cybersecurity, as described in the State Department's recent joint statement. Given the evolving threat landscape in recent years, it is remarkable it has taken so long for this partnership to mature. What may be quicker to evolve is the private sector's reaction to this new partnership as cybersecurity service providers recognize this bilateral cooperation as a lucrative commercial opportunity.

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