RSAC 2025 celebrates the cybersecurity event’s 34th year

The RSAC Conference is celebrating its 34th year as the world’s largest cybersecurity gathering, now evolved into the broader RSA Community with year-round activities and memberships. The 2025 event, attracting over 41,000 attendees, will heavily focus on artificial intelligence’s dual role as both a powerful security tool and a potential vulnerability source. This intersection of AI and cybersecurity represents a critical frontier where industry leaders are working to establish guardrails and protections while harnessing AI’s capabilities.

The big picture: The conference will explore the complex relationship between AI systems and cybersecurity through numerous specialized sessions.

• Experts will tackle questions about safely delegating critical tasks to autonomous AI applications that operate without direct human supervision.
• Authentication and management of non-human identities, including AI bots, applications, and IoT devices, will be a central focus area.

Why this matters: Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier’s keynote will address the dual challenge of making AI systems trustworthy through policy guardrails and protection from external attacks.

• As organizations increasingly integrate AI into security infrastructure, ensuring these systems remain accurate, appropriate, and resistant to manipulation becomes essential.
• The conference highlights how AI systems themselves represent new attack surfaces that require specialized security approaches.

Key details: The conference will feature demonstrations of AI vulnerabilities, including LLM poisoning techniques that can manipulate generative AI responses.

• Previous RSAC presentations have revealed how specific prompts can trigger responses that violate an AI’s internal rules.
• An offsite demonstration will show how poisoned inputs can skew large language model results, potentially compromising system integrity.

Conference highlights: Beyond AI security, the event will showcase diverse cybersecurity topics from industry thought leaders.

• Security influencer Ira Winkler will present a session titled “AI Is Just Math: Get Over It!”
• Kerry Tomlinson will address protecting seniors from online attacks, while Ayelet Biger-Levin will discuss scam prevention strategies.
• Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee will discuss the Solid web evolution project, and attendees can experience DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge.