US homeland security chief says cyber risk “equals 9/11 impact”

On the 8th of April 2008, the BBC reported that the US homeland security chief has made a heartfelt plea to Silicon Valley workers to stand up and be counted in the fight to secure the cyber highway.

Michael Chertoff invoked the attacks of 9/11 as he sought to galvanise IT professionals and security experts.

He told the world’s biggest IT security conference that serious threats to cyberspace are on “a par this country tragically experienced on 9/11″.

Such attacks can hit financial bodies and a government’s powers, he said.

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The world’s largest information security industry conference and expo

The RSAConference claims to be the most comprehensive forum in information security.

The 2008 edition in the US claim to have 17,000 attendees from the industry’s best and brightest.

There are 19 class tracks and more than 220 sessions.

Keynote addresses from Microsoft, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, CA, VeriSign, Symantec, TippingPoint, Oracle, and IBM.

Many networking (the human sort) events such as the Peer2Peer Sessions, First-Time Attendee Orientation, Welcome Reception, and the annual RSA® Conference Codebreakers Bash.

More than 350 exhibitors.

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