The walk-up music for the post-lunch keynote speaker sounded familiar, but it took me a minute before I figured it out: It was the Hot Dog Song from Disney Jr.’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. It may have been the most unique walk-up music I heard at any of the cybersecurity conferences I attended last year, but I was staying at a Disney resort, so maybe it wasn’t that unusual.
But it was also representative of a central theme from many of the security keynote speeches I attended in 2019: the unexpected.
I expected to hear talks from the likes of Brian Krebs and Bruce Schneier, two of the most respected cybersecurity experts in the business today — both of whom spoke at cybersecurity conferences I attended in 2019. But comedian Tina Fey or former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal? Why on earth were they giving security keynote speeches?
It turns out that, while the list of speakers was wide-ranging, almost all of them had a similar message: We are overwhelmed by threats that could take down our institutions if they go unanswered.
Cybersecurity Is Like Improv Comedy
Tina Fey’s keynote address closed the 2019 RSA Conference, and it was unusual for two reasons. First, the huge conference room was filled with women, which was certainly not the case for any other talk I attended that week. Second, the closest the speaker came to discussing security was when she, portraying Sarah Palin, announced that she could see Russia from her house, throwing back to the now-famous SNL skit. I expected the talk to be funny (and it was), but I didn’t expect her to be so percep ..
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