Thursday at RSA ended with a lecture by Dr Peter Warren Singer from the Brookings Institute. And coming after the dry and somewhat predictable speech from FBI director Robert S Mueller (the third, no less) it ended the day's proceedings with some ethical dynamics. It also effectively ended the conference, as while things happen on the Friday, the important stuff tends to play out from Tuesday to Thursday.

The new CEO of Webroot, Dick Williams, has been speaking to SC at RSA Conference about his ambitions for the Boulder-based web and email filter business. Williams, who spent 22 years at IBM, is also a veteran of the Silicon Valley VC community. Most recently he served as CEO-in-Residence at Accel Partners, working on new start-ups.

Scott Charney and Enrique Salem grasp the mettle during keynote sessions and realise that our brave new world brings hidden dangers in the cloud.

Cisco yesterday announced AnyConnect Secure Mobillty. A suite it says that will combine the endpoint, the network and the cloud within one package driven by IronPort hardware.

Richard Thomas served as UK information commissioner until 2009. He is credited with bringing data security into the mainstream. By Paul Fisher

SC Editor Paul Fisher is in San Francisco for the annual information security beanfest. Here he gives a preview of some of the highlights among the keynotes.

An intensive three days in the Israeli business capital's high-tech sector turned up some interesting security ideas. By Paul Fisher

The SVP of Symantec's Security Group, Francis deSouza has revealed to SC that CEOs and other C-level executives are increasingly falling victim to more sophisticated phishing attacks, often disguised as official communications from government agencies such as revenue.

Symantec's new CEO knows his way around the company he has been with since 1990, but can he lead it in tough times? Yes, says Paul Fisher

The co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Check Point, and architect of the first off-the-shelf firewall, meets Paul Fisher