A quick thought on RSAC (while flying home).

On why the show floor keeps making promises it cant keep (and why Dave Aitel actually had a valid point¹).

https://blog.thinkst.com/2026/03/rsac-infosec-themes-and-crumby-products.html

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¹ All those years ago

Important, business-critical need..

A sticker vendor aware of Apples corner radius..

RSAC was more subdued this year.

Although the floor was plastered in AI, AI protection & Agentic*, everyone knows its a placeholder while we figure things out..

So it's more performative than normal:
Vendors act like they have the solutions & attendees act like they believe it

We’ve always had a problem with least privilege, but users needed to be owned for it to visibly hurt the enterprise.

Kevin didn’t know what to do with the extra creds, but his agent will.

Maybe the first run of the “paperclip” problem will be agents wiping shares to save us..

Only just caught up with this older episode of “Inside the Network” with Michelle Zatlyn.

Cloudflare impressively manages to keep shipping cool stuff despite their size, and she shares a bunch of down-to-earth, startup advice (even for non cyber-sec startups).

https://pca.st/episode/9af0baa8-8907-4405-a362-22a7267c4186

A common startup meme has been how shipping velocity trumps all.

With people on the fringes “shipping” thousands of lines of code per day, it’s now “obvious” that startups should be adopting this new paradigm and just —yolo’ing it…

Except maybe… not.

Apple and google have long had (near)infinite dollars to hire ppl to generate thousands of lines of code per day… but great products are much more than just code velocity..

Run the idea maze.. build beautiful things.. org tempo matters, not klocs of slop…

When we first showed up at BlackHat as unknown S Africans, we were kinda shellshocked (& awestruck) by it all.

FX was one of the first people to pull us in & hung out with us. We kept in touch but not nearly as much as I should have.

He will be missed.

https://blog.recurity-labs.com/2026-03-02/Farewell_Felix

It sounds childish, but the weirdest part of how we seem to be marching towards wars & global uncertainty, is how unnecessary it seems 🤷‍♂️

(“Evil” sounds too judgmental, but) this seems like the stage we’ll later recall as “the banality of evil”