RSA Conference 2025: Complete Guide

The RSA Conference 2025 (RSAC) will be held April 28 – May 1, 2025 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. In this blog post, we'll cover all the details you need to know about the upcoming event and highlights from the 2024 version of the event.

Looking for Splunk at RSAC? Check back closer to the event for more details on Splunk at RSA Conference 2025.

RSA Conference 2025 preview

RSA Conference is where the cybersecurity world comes together to gain invaluable insights, engage in deep conversations, and discover transformative solutions that can make an impact on your organization. RSA's mission in an industry marked by rapid change is to help you stay one step ahead.

The RSA Conference serves as the epicenter where the global cybersecurity community converges to glean priceless insights, engage in profound dialogues, and unearth innovative solutions with the potential to leave a lasting imprint on your organization. In an industry characterized by swift transformations, RSA's mission is to empower you to maintain a forward position, ensuring you stay ahead of the curve.

Why attend?

Enhance your expertise: Immerse yourself in an extensive array of dynamic sessions encompassing a wide spectrum of topics. Uncover the most recent trends, emerging threats, and practical solutions that seamlessly align with your daily responsibilities. Furthermore, through collaborations with industry associations, you have the opportunity to earn Continuing Education (CE) credits.

Expand your professional connections: Rarely does an occasion present itself to convene some of the brightest minds in the cybersecurity field in one location. At RSAC 2025, you will have ample opportunities to engage with colleagues and exchange ideas with professionals who have successfully navigated challenges you may not have even considered. RSAC offer a diverse range of formats, from structured group discussions to casual conversations and hands-on learning experiences.

Embrace leading-edge innovation: The Expo reveals the latest advancements in cybersecurity technology from over 600 of the world's foremost vendors. Additionally, immerse yourself in groundbreaking innovations at the RSAC Early-Stage Expo. This exhibition space showcases both emerging and early-stage talents in the cybersecurity realm as they introduce their most recent products and services.

RSAC theme

Since 1995, each year has seen the selection of a distinctive theme centered around a particular aspect of information security, culminating in the development of a narrative and design that permeates the entire event. Marketing collateral, signage, and websites are meticulously crafted to fully embrace the chosen theme and design.

This year, the chosen theme is "Many Voices. One Community."

“We are a vibrant community of passionate thinkers, innovators, and achievers. Though our numbers are vast, our mission is unified. Together, we sharpen our abilities to foresee risks, counter threats, and embrace new challenges. This shared drive connects and elevates us.

Like many lamps casting a single, brilliant light, our diverse strengths and perspectives blend to create a powerful force. Here, your ideas and voice find resonance and support. Join us at RSA Conference 2025, and let’s showcase the extraordinary impact of a united community. This is where we truly shine as one.”

Passes & rates

This year there are a wide variety of rates and pass options. To get the best ticket price, its important to register during one of the early periods:

• Early Bird (October 21 - January 10)
• Discount (January 11 - March 28)
• Standard (March 29 – April 25)
• Onsite (April 26 - May 1)

In addition to rates by purchase date, there are a variety of ticket options that include different levels of access:

• Full Conference (Most expensive)
• Expo Plus
• Expo (Least expensive)
• On-Demand 

Splunk at RSA

Of course, Splunk is thrilled to be at RSAC, too. As the conference approaches, stay tuned for updates on where to find us and how to connect with us.

Here are some Splunk highlights that were discussed at RSA Conference 2024:

• Powering the SOC of the future: Splunk emphasized the importance of adopting a decentralized, agile, and integrated approach to SecOps to combat the growing volume and sophistication of cyberattacks.
• Data-driven security: The SOC of the future relies on a federated approach to ensure visibility across decentralized data sources, enabling real-time threat detection and cost-effective data management.
• Unified threat detection and response: By unifying threat detection, investigation, and response workflows (TDIR), Splunk streamlines threat management with AI-powered tools to enhance efficiency and reduce risk.
• Innovation and flexibility: Splunk’s customizable, open solutions foster innovation and adaptability, empowering organizations to meet unique security challenges and stay ahead of evolving threats.

(Related reading: metrics for the SOC.)

Check out Splunk’s very own Gary Steele, the Executive Vice President, General Manager, giving a keynote on revolutionizing the SOC for the future threat landscape:

RSA Conference 2024 review

The RSA Conference 2024, held from May 6-9, came to an end with hundreds of featured sessions on a variety of topics about cybersecurity, including DevSecOps, AI, rising cloud threats, fraud prevention and more. There were more that 41,000 attendees, 600 exhibitors from 140 countries, 400 members of the media and 650 speakers presenting breakout sessions.

RSA Conference is known across the world as “Where the world talks about security” and based on the topics covered, RSA sure did live up to the hype surrounding their name. This blog post will summarize the big announcements and highlights from the 2024 edition of the RSA Conference.

Want to watch a quick recap of RSA Conference 2024? Watch the video below! Britta Glade (RSAC Vice President, Content & Curation) and Hugh Thompson (RSAC Executive Chairman) reflect on the biggest moments from the weeklong event!

Highlighted Topics from RSA Conference 2024

Generative AI and cybersecurity 

Arguably the hottest topic from the RSA Conference would be generative AI and its opportunity to revolutionize cybersecurity practices. It demonstrated its value in rapidly onboarding SOC analysts, helping them achieve proficiency more quickly, and improving the accuracy of their work. Another critical use case was streamlining situation reporting, enabling security teams to better communicate threats to stakeholders like legal, HR, and operations. 

These advancements make generative AI a crucial tool for leveling the playing field between defenders and adversaries. This signals its potential to transform security operations in the years to come.

Most Innovative Startup 2024

Each year, a panel of judges will assess a number of startups and decide who will win the Most Innovative Startup and for this 2024 conference, a New York company was chosen and it is called Reality Defender. This startup detects fraudulent AI generated media where Ben Coleman, Co-Founder and CEO, recognizes that Generative AI is a trillion dollar company where anyone can create fiction on demand. He says “while the outputs are fake, the threats are real.”

Software supply chain security

Another notable topic was the current software supply chain security, focusing on the challenges of managing third-party components and services. Experts highlighted how AI and ML can automate vulnerability detection and remediation while underscoring the need to ensure the trustworthiness of these systems.

(Related reading: supply chain attacks.)

Secure by Design

At RSA 2024, CISA announced its "Secure by Design" initiative, uniting 68 major tech firms, including Microsoft, Google, and IBM, to prioritize building security into their products over the next year. Highlighted as a game-changing standard, this pledge aims to reduce exploitable flaws in software and strengthen cybersecurity through collaboration between government and industry leaders.