RSA Conference
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Stands for: RSA Conference - from cryptographers' gathering to the industry's biggest trade show
The industry's biggest stage: born in 1991 as a small gathering of cryptographers, now the annual San Francisco mega-show where the security business shows what it is selling this year.
RSA Conference began as a seminar convened by RSA Data Security for the tiny community arguing about cryptography - the Cryptographers' Panel survives as the ritual link to that origin - and grew with the industry into its trade fair: tens of thousands of attendees, an expo floor of acronyms competing for the same budgets, and the year's marketing theses on every banner. The honest reading practitioners share: the talks are uneven but the signal is real - walk the floor and you know what the industry believes, or wants you to believe, this year. Black Hat is where research premieres; RSA is where it gets productized.
Also known as: rsac, rsa conference, cryptographers panel, moscone