Roses are red, IBM is Big Blue. It's out of RSA Conference after coronavirus review: IBMers will not attend infosec event over 'health concerns'

Roses are red, IBM is Big Blue. It's out of RSA Conference after coronavirus review: IBMers will not attend infosec event over 'health concerns'

Who will join the IT giant in staying away from San Francisco?


Updated IBM has pulled out of annual security shindig RSA Conference, due to be held in San Francisco at the end of this month, to avoid its staff catching the Wuhan novel coronavirus that's spreading worldwide.


"The health of IBMers continues to be our primary concern as we monitor upcoming events and travel relative to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19),” Big Blue told The Register in a statement in the past hour.


“As a result, we are cancelling our participation in this year's RSA taking place February 24 - 28 in San Francisco."


This is the first major exhibitor to pull out of the show, one of the largest of its kind in the world with an estimated 45,000 attendees. The novel coronavirus has so far, according to official numbers from Beijing, infected more than ..

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