There was no way Melissa Hathaway was going to steal Pres. Obama’s thunder at the RSA Conference on security in San Francisco last week. Expectations ran high that Hathaway would divulge details from the exhaustive 60-day review of cybersecurity policy she just recently delivered to senior White House officials.
But her report remains under review by Obama. Hathaway, nonetheless, gamely took to the stage Wednesday afternoon, April 22, in front of several thousand tech industry executives, software engineers, computer scientists, analysts and reporters at the RSA Conference on security. The audience arrived early to jockey for good seats. Compensating, somewhat, for the meager steak she would deliver, Hathaway opened with some Hollywood sizzle.
