It's the week of February 14, 2011.

We're at the big beautiful Moskoni center at San Francisco.

Walking through a truly giant expo floor, hundreds or maybe thousands of people pass by, chatting and visiting presentation booths set up by big tech companies from around the world.

Nearby in a giant conference hall, row after row of portable semi-comfortable chairs are lined

up with TV monitors above so that people in the back can see what's

happening all the way up on stage. Among the speakers lined up for the week are computer expert and author Bruce

Schneider physicist Michu Kaku deputy secretary of defense William Lynn and the

42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton.

This is RSA Conference 2011, one of the biggest industry events of the year, the place to be if you're in cyber security.

I'm Sam Curry, I'm the chief security officer at Cyber Reason and a visiting fellow at the National

Security Institute.

Sam Currie was at the 2011 conference, natural.

As a senior executive at RSA at the time,

he was busy organizing and shaking hands probably too busy to actually

enjoy any of the speeches.

Among the wheeling and dealing, the snack bars and chatting with other CTOs and CSOs, and listening to talks

about this and that, there was hardly any time to think about anything else.

It especially wasn't a good time for bad news.

The first time I got when something was happening, I was at our essay conference and we had an incident.

An incident, inconvenient for sure, but probably nothing serious.

We have incidents all the time and it was late night on the phone, being on the phone constantly

with all the chaos of the show with some colleagues and we pretty much contained the

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