RSA 2008: All Grown Up

The RSA Conference continues to strengthen its hold as the industry's most important gathering for IT security pros.

When the train that is the RSA Conference pulls into San Francisco next month, its arrival will mark 17 years since a small group gathered in Redwood City, Calif. to lay the groundwork for what would become the world's largest IT security show.

The year was 1991, and the event, then known as "Cryptography, Standards & Public Policy," consisted of no more than 50 people, all cryptographers. Two years later, the gathering became the annual RSA Conference and began attracting hundreds of people from all realms of information security.

Fast forward to 2008, and now 17,000 people are expected to converge on the Moscone Center. But, for an industry that is as fast changing, history likely means little to attendees. Instead it is all about the most current subject matter and viewing the latest products from the expected 375 vendors.

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