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This week at the RSA U.S. 2012 Conference in San Francisco, IT security executives, government leaders and security researchers and hackers gathered together for keynotes and sessions covering a range of topics impacting the industry today. Security experts shared the latest trends and issues facing corporate organizations, governments, and citizens on the Internet and discussed big data and analytics; the growth of cloud computing and expanding use of mobile technologies and consumerization of IT; and the changing threat landscape. In other news, CNET reports on Microsoft’s Windows 8 beta, which drew a million downloads in one day.

RSA in the News

• RSA Conference 2012: Gauging the future for Microsoft’s privacy, security initiatives – Network World
• The Security Game Needs to Change – Threat Post
• RSA 2012: Trustworthy computing more important than ever, says Microsoft – Computer Weekly
• Hacktivism Forcing Organizations to Look Inward – SC Magazine

Security Research & Intelligence

• RSA Conference 2012: Former NSA Director says secure clouds can’t come fast enough – Computer World

• RSA 2012: IT security experts urge enterprises to ban smartphone BYOD schemes – Computer Weekly

Cyber Threat

• IT execs must shift security approaches – Computer World

• Cyber threats a game changer for the FBI – CSO

• At RSA, FBI Director Discusses Cyber Threats – FBI blog

Government, Legislation & Policy

• Microsoft Testifies on U.S. Senate Cybersecurity Legislation – Microsoft On the Issues

Blog Picks

• Liars and Outliers: The Big Idea – Schneier on Security
• Keep CIRT and Internal Investigations Separate – TaoSecurity
• Trustworthy Computing Next: Building Trust in a Connected World  – Official Microsoft Blog

Microsoft Research, Papers and Media

• Trustworthy Computing Next (paper)
• Cybersecurity/Internet Health
• Rethinking the Cyber Threat (paper)
• Collective Defense: Applying Public Health Models to the Internet (paper)
• Video: Collective Defense: Enabling Healthy Devices (video)
• Security Intelligence
  • Lessons from Least Malware Infected Countries (series)
  • Battling the ZBot Threat (paper)
• Trustworthy Computing
  • Imagine Video: Microsoft Trustworthy Computing (video)
• Cybersecurity/Trusted Supply Chain:
• Supply Chain Risk Management keynote at the East-West Institute’s Second Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit (video)
• Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: Toward a Global Vision of Transparency and Trust (paper)
• Toward a Trusted Supply Chain: A Risk Based Approach To Managing Software Integrity(paper)
• Microsoft at RSA Conference 2012
• Microsoft Sessions at RSA Conference 2012
• Trust in Computing Research

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