It was very entertaining to see Verisign's new CEO, Bill Ropert, trying to both court RSA and IBM, comparing his company as a "mid-morning snack" for them, and play hard to get :-) Verisign is a bit in a...

I had mixed feeling with IBM's Internet Security Systems general manager, Val Rahmani, performance at RSA's CEO panel. On one hand, Rahmani was very eloquent on general topics, such as protecting smaller firms and consumers from "smart hackers", the...

At the security CEOs panel this morning, McAfee's chief predicted more dangers for consumers surfing the Internet and enterprises online presence. I know that security is its daily bread and the more people buy its antivirus and such, the...

With a handful of my journalist peers (Bloomberg News, Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News and Investor's Business Daily), I attended a "fireside chat" this afternoon with EMC chief, Joe Tucci (pictured, left), and RSA's Art Coviello (right)....

Today is the second Tuesday of the month as known in the security community as "Patch Tuesday", when Microsoft releases security updates for its products. It all started in 2003 after customers asked Microsoft to stop releasing patches whenever...

This afternoon, at the W hotel in San Francisco, Microsoft was giving out some details on what the company's chief strategist, Craig Mundie, is going to talk in his keynote tomorrow morning. In a nutshell, the idea is to...

The show actually kicks off tomorrow with keynotes from RSA chief, Art Coviello, John Thompson, Symantec CEO and Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer. But I came in San Francisco this afternoon for a Microsoft meeting in...