Misinformation, MFA Doubts, and AI: Everything We Saw at RSAC 2023

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The last of the livestreams are over and in San Francisco, another RSA Conference has come and gone. This year, we saw sessions about the impact of AI, the continued spread of misinformation, the failures and future of multi-factor authentication, the security of EV charging stations, and much more. Here's a rundown of everything we saw at RSAC 2023.

Among the headline-making attendees at RSAC this week was Yoel Roth, former head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. He joined a few other cybersecurity experts to discuss how the industry could help curb the spread of disinformation and misinformation online. As Kim Key writes, the session, titled Misinformation Is the New Malware, turned into less of a discussion about whether the industry could do it, and pivoted to who should do it.

Catherine Gellis, an attorney and policy advocate, noted that if you look at the issue from a legal perspective, the US Constitution’s First Amendment protects some forms of disinformation or misinformation. "Sometimes people are wrong," explained Gellis. "Wrongness happens, and if you had a law that was speaking to wrongness and forbidding it, you would have some chilling effects on people who are saying things they are right about."

The government shouldn't be the sole arbiter of truth regarding online speech, according to Gellis, who noted that the First Amendment also protects private corporations' rights to limit speech on their platforms.

In his keynote speech, RSA Security CEO Rohit Ghai acknowledged an uncomfortable truth: AI will have a big impact on the security industry. "We must accept that many jobs will disappear, many will change, and some will be created," Ghai said. (The RSA Conference is separate from RSA Security.)

The jobs