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.
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