RSA Security LLC

And we're going to start with you, Lee, with a new way to break our essay.

Yes, we've talked to a few times about how RSA cryptography is at risk once quantum computing becomes a practical reality.

But researchers found a new way to use classic computing to reduce RSA security levels to a very low threshold.

Now, researchers were able to attack 1,024...

Why did I say 1,000? 1024-bit keys using an academic CPU cluster rather than a much more powerful super-mega-computer.

Now, obviously...

I'd like to go on and tell you a long and detailed explanation of this and how it works, but I'm too stupid and this is nibs, so I can't.

But it enables a way of breaking RSA keys, which is basically much faster and on low-spec hardware, and apparently it works very nice on 2048 and 4096-bit keys too.

Well, at the Barracuda Tech Summit 26 here in Altbach, Austria, I spoke with the Barracuda CEO on his first anniversary since his appointment.

He will reflect on what attracted him to Barracuda, how his experience at RSA helped shaped his leadership philosophy, And why protecting smaller organizations actually gives cybersecurity a particularly meaningful purpose.

And we'll also discuss why the AI era strengthens the case for connected security platforms.

How tool sprawl could become agent sprawl.

And Rohit Guy, as you noted, I'm CEO of Barracuda as of exactly one year.

And, you know, I've been in cyber for several decades.

Prior to running Barracuda, I ran a heritage cybersecurity company called RSA.

So I was, you know, I was grateful to have the opportunity to curate the RSA conference, which, as you may know, is one of the largest congregation of cyber thinkers and cyber people in general.

And in the late 90s, early 2000s, everyone was leaving investment banking to get into operating roles in tech companies.

And the company that chose me was RSA Security.

I joined that company in April of 2000, which was literally the peak of the NASDAQ and the whole tech bubble at that time.

And I spent five years there and worked on a bunch of amazing projects.

One of them was a company in the identity space that was early days of Web Single Sign-On, early days of SAML and all that stuff.

And I think RSA was sort of the identity company back then.

between certificates that identified servers and websites and secure ID tokens that identify people, it was the identity company.

And so it was a great place to be.