The VAR Guy

Despite our predictions, the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco ended with a whimper on Friday. Awards were presented, but the biggest announcements were made earlier in the week. Here’s the roundup of the day’s events and our overall convention analysis.

Key moves included:

• A Google software engineer defended the security of their upcoming Chrome OS, saying that the open source nature of the product means it’ll constantly be getting more and more secure.
• A study released at the conference indicates that 40% of companies surveyed were looking to hire more than three security pros in 2010, even as their average salaries rise.
• Computerworld notes the recent Google attacks and the rise of social networking caused a cloud of paranoia to descend on the show floor.

The takeaway from this year’s RSA Security Conference is this: cloud computing, social networking, and the generally changing computing landscape present a lot of valid security and privacy concerns, making the concept of identity verification and management more important than ever for SMBs, enterprises, and the government alike – but solutions are on the way.

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