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RSAC Conference 2025: AI and quantum complicate security

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RSAC Conference 2025 has been full on, with cybersecurity experts from all over the world descending on San Francisco to share trends, data, and announcements.

This year, ITPro has been providing both remote and on the ground coverage from the event, across talks covering topics such as AI security and threat actor methodology.

In this episode, Jane speaks to Rory about some of his RSAC coverage and key takeaways from the event.

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• RSAC Conference day two: A focus on what attackers are doing
• "There needs to be an order of magnitude more effort"": AI security experts call for focused evaluation of frontier models and agentic systems
• Cyber defenders need to remember their adversaries are human, says Trellix research head
• RSAC Conference day three: using AI to do more with less and facing new attack techniques
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