Looking Forward to RSAC 2025

Rajan Panchanathan is Head of Product, Intel Trust Services.

The RSAC 2025 Conference, a driving force in the cybersecurity community, is just around the corner: the five-day event kicks off on Sunday, April 27. It’s a great place to see the spirit of “Intel Inside” as various companies collaborate with Intel to achieve their cybersecurity outcomes. Here are a few things I’m looking forward to at this year’s event in San Francisco.

Secure AI

It feels like I’m required to put the word “AI” into everything I write in 2025… but the industry really needs to take Secure AI seriously. AI requires a large amount of data, often sensitive or personal, and powerful models to achieve meaningful results. That combination of data and IP makes an attractive target for bad actors, but it also means users may not trust AI agents if operators don’t take security and verification seriously.

Companies like EQTY Lab* and Thales* have collaborated with Intel to build products based on confidential computing, designed to add encryption and isolation to both data and AI models in use. EQTY Lab’s Verifiable Compute solution, built with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX), is a Top 10 Finalist for this year’s RSAC Innovation Sandbox. Their solution provides hardware-based assurance to help govern and audit AI workloads.

We’re also collaborating with companies like Mirror Security*, a first-time exhibitor at RSAC. Mirror Security provides a comprehensive security platform, designed for AI data security, zero-trust LLMs, privacy-preserving AI, agentic security, and automated red teaming. They have some interesting demos planned for their booth.

Thales, a worldwide leader in data protection, enhances end-to-end data protection with Intel® Tiber™ Trust Authority. Intel will be giving a presentation, “Trusted & Secure AI Workloads,” in the Thales booth on Tuesday, April 29 @ 2:00pm, and I welcome everyone to hear our perspective.

Advancing Post-Quantum Cryptography

While everyone is excited about AI and its impact on cybersecurity, I’m also keeping an eye on quantum computing. Some attackers are following a “harvest now, decrypt later” (HNDL) philosophy, where they collect sensitive data now and attempt to decrypt it in the future when quantum computing runs at scale. It’s critical to increase encryption strength now so it’s resistant to future quantum computing attacks. Intel is helping co-develop new PQC standards, but our ecosystem is already delivering solutions.

Intel has been collaborating with Arqit* on performant solutions for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Available as either a Private Instance (PI) or a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Arqit’s SKA-Platform is designed to address the spectrum of current and future cyber threats. I’m excited to see what they’re showing off at the event.

Driving Industry Collaboration

Intel continues to play a key role in industry standards and working groups. Several of my colleagues will be in the Confidential Computing Consortium booth, collaborating with the industry to accelerate the adoption of confidential computing and help secure data in use. I’m also planning to attend talks from the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), another first-time exhibitor at RSAC. Intel is a founding member of CoSAI, which works to advance AI security, develop industry-wide standards, and provide open resources for secure AI development.

Security Built In. Security to Build On.

There’s so much to explore at the RSAC Conference, and it won’t all fit into a single blog. Intel has a unique position in the ecosystem, providing silicon-enabled security designed to both safeguard customers and create business opportunities. As much as I appreciate Intel’s security capabilities, those business opportunities are what I’m looking forward to exploring with all of you in San Francisco.

If you’re interested in meeting with me or my team at the RSAC Conference, please let me know: TrustSecuritySoftware@intel.com