Plus, a Bonus Hot Topic Prediction As the cybersecurity world prepares to descend upon the Moscone Center in San Francisco in just over a week, vendors, trainers, conference staff, and attendees are making final preparations for what should be an eventful week for everyone involved. While many attendees are veterans of RSAC, there are undoubtedly a large number of attendees for who this will be their first time experiencing RSAC in person. For those folks, here are three ways to ensure your visit to the city by the bay is worthwhile. Make a Vendor Plan While most, if not all, attendees already have the session agenda set ( click here to view the agenda ), don’t sleep on making a plan for the exhibit hall. With hundreds of vendors across Moscone North and South and the walkway between the two sides, aimlessly walking the floor can make your head spin in minutes. RSAC put together a  Marketplace  where you can search by keyword, company, or product or use pre-defined cate...

  As continued economic headwinds persist into 2023, security leaders look toward simplifying their security stack and reducing costs. For example, a recent  Gartner survey  of more than 400 security leaders found that 75% of organizations are pursuing security vendor consolidation strategies, up from 29% in 2020. Within this same survey, the top two security focus areas to achieve vendor consolidation centered on  secure access service edge (SASE)  and  extended detection and response (XDR) .  SASE has emerged at the forefront of this trend by rearchitecting disparate networking and security functions into a single consolidated cloud service. Meanwhile XDR integrates the sprawl of disparate security tools and applies AI analytics and automation to make  threat detection  faster and response easier. The clear benefit of adopting a SASE and XDR strategy is to reduce costs by eliminating low-value legacy security tools and on-premise appliances...