第三天RSA 09：Showtime！

保罗·麦卡特尼（Paul McCartney）和翼球迷吗？我真的很喜欢他们的音乐，尽管我个人认为保罗·麦卡特尼（Paul McCartney）是一个真正的狂热者。但是那个旺克的人可以肯定写一些好曲子！在专辑中（在这里约会）“ Wings Live of America”之前，歌曲摇滚乐开始了一个发起人的家伙说：“ Showtime！”那是RSA的第三天对我来说是什么，但是我的想法是在那天晚些时候进行的摄像机采访中的最后两场。我一直很期待的这两个。罗布和我通过互联网为约翰·伯伯（John Chamber）的现场主题演讲开放。我们向展位和世界各地的现场观众展示了。真的很棒！我喜欢与现场观众说话！ To feel the energy, scan the crowd for non verbals to see if we are hitting the mark and watch the crowd grow...oh man! There is nothing like presenting live! We put together a show based on conficker and the new Safev2 design guidelines. It was a lot of fun. Once the show was over, I headed over to the first of my anticipated interviews. Of course I stopped by the VeriSign booth to watch a Dude escape from a straight jacket while riding a unicycle then juggle some knifes afterward. Note to self: update resume... Past some of the skankest Bret Micheals Rock Of Love booth babes I have ever seen is a small booth with a catchy name: Phone Factor. I saw this booth being constructed on Monday and just reading the silk screened booth I was very intrigued. Two factor authentication with your cell phone. Now, two things I noticed without talking to a single person in that booth. First: It was in start up city where all the best innovations come from. Second: The name of the company is Phone Factor and not Phone Phactor so that means this company was most likely founded by an engineer focused on engineering and not on marketing. YES! I spoke with Steve at Phone Factor and of course after finding out they are based in Kansas City we had to trade BBQ stories. I still think LC's is the King of BBQ in KC!!! anyway back to business, Steve went on to explain how their solution works. We all know that two factor is something you know and something you have. Their solution is that nearly everyone has a phone, why not use that as your second factor. Sounds good to me...but I wondered how restricted it was to VPN clients, cell phone models and installing software, I was concerned about scalability. Steve went on to say that Phone Factor is phone independent (cell or land line), no client side software to install and works with most popular VPN clients. It works like this: - Start your VPN tunnel - Your credentials are verified via RADIUS/LDAP tie in - Now your registered phone number starts to ring - Answer the phone and press # or enter a pin if you would like - Your in! My thought was some automated voice read back a pin code to you but no way! It is a true two factor solution. Once you answer that phone and hit # you are logged in. Now if someone harvests or steals your password what happens? Your phone rings. How cool is that for being alerted of a security breach!! The best solutions are always the simplest solutions aren't they? I instantly noticed a real value in what they came up with as a solution to solve many problems with token based authentication. I walked away thinking, "Now why didn't I think of that?" The last and final interview was with RSA/VMWare. We did this after the show floor was cleared. Mangus and Allwyn from RSA not only have to coolest names of anyone at RSA but the also have a very happening product. They went on to show me a demo of DLP in the the virtualized space. This is a brand new product they just announced at RSA. DLP is nothing to get too excited about in general BUT in the virtual space, well that is something all together different! I pressed them on how this is different then how one of my favorite Cisco products; CSA does DLP? Virtualization is the key but not only is it the key but they wrote this code in a virtual appliance mode and not just a software shim like WinPcap. As a virtual appliance it can interact and take advantage of other virtualized optimizations like the Cisco Nexus 1000. I was floored at this announcement and the demo they ran for me. I highly recommend watching this video as soon as it comes out. Today is Day Four the final day at RSA. The show closes two hours earlier then previous days. It is typically known as vendor t-shirt day! This the day vendors try to score t-shirts and booth stuff from each other so they do not have to pack and haul it back. Which is great timing for me since my wife just tossed out my: "The Future is YOURS! IBM 16Meg Token Ring" t-shirt. Jimmy Ray Purser Trivia File Transfer Protocol Janis Joplin's Will called for a party for 200 people at her favorite pub in San Alselmo, California at a cost of 2500 bucks!