RSA 2015 Expo: Best in Show

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  • RSA 2015

    RSA 2015

    Thousands of information security professionals of all kinds streamed in and out of RSA 2015 at San Francisco's Moscone Center on the first day of RSA's sprawling expo.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • RSA Incident Response Booth

    RSA Incident Response Booth

    The booth for RSA's Incident Response Assistance products and immediate assistance resource page (incidentresponse.rsa.com), complete with Oculus Rift VR experience.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • RSA 2015 Booth Maximization

    RSA 2015 Booth Maximization

    This year, RSA exhibitors became more outrageous than ever, and did the most with some of the worst of the floor's real estate -- like Fortinet, who pulled a semi truck into what's typically seen as a "no man's land" in Moscone North.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • RSA 2015 Dress Code

    RSA 2015 Dress Code

    This year, RSA introduced a dress code, which was seen by some as controversial -- but it essentially banned scantily-clad "booth babes".

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • RSA 2015

    RSA 2015

    The stereotypes of hackers as shadowy criminals in ghetto hoodies was widely perpetuated by many exhibitors, despite the fact that RSA's primarily white-collar attendees are actually hackers themselves.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • Veracode at RSA 2015

    Veracode at RSA 2015

    Veracode's booth was the most colorful, with stylish art from top to bottom, and a photo booth with props that drew many.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • Tripwire at RSA 2015

    Tripwire at RSA 2015

    Tripwire made great use of their sprawling exhibitor space, which features speakers, t-shirts, beer, and seating.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

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  • Tripwire Superheroes at RSA 2015

    Tripwire Superheroes at RSA 2015

    Tripwire's RSA 2015 exhibitor experience also features free t-shirts with bold comic-style superheroes, putting an interesting spin on the visualization of security issues.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • Huawei at RSA 2015

    Huawei at RSA 2015

    Contentious company Huawei's giant booth seemed to have both a strong Chinese feel and a strange sense of identity crisis with its faux-brick artifice.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • AlienVault at RSA 2015

    AlienVault at RSA 2015

    Exceeding Veracode's graphic style and overall excellence is AlienVault, with its Star Wars themed bar and impossible-to-miss flying saucer over the booth's two-story cityscape facade.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • RSA 2015 "Whac-A-Hack"

    RSA 2015 "Whac-A-Hack"

    Strange, unsettling and irresistible to some attendees is BeyondTrust's "Whac-A-Hack" arcade game, turning Guy Fawkes masks and the face of Edward Snowden into a game of physically bashing down threats.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • BeyondTrust at RSA 2015

    BeyondTrust at RSA 2015

    BeyondTrust's "Whac-A-Hack" game at the RSA 2015 expo was probably the last place Edward Snowden probably ever imagined to see his face.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • RSA 2015

    RSA 2015

    The best prank badge on the show floor is without a doubt the one belonging to this esteemed company.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • Pwnie Express Pwn Pulse at RSA 2015

    Pwnie Express Pwn Pulse at RSA 2015

    Pwnie Express debuted its new tool for detecting rogue network cell activity, including the ability to discover Stingrays -- the Pwn Pulse (being run on the expo floor with the above modified Pwn Pro).

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • HackRF on Display, RSA 2015

    HackRF on Display, RSA 2015

    On display in the Pwnie Express booth is a HackRF, a software defined radio peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals from 10 MHz to 6 GHz.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • RSA 2015

    RSA 2015

    This year there was more art than ever on the show floor, with plenty of terrific graphic representations of hacking and security.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • NSA at RSA 2015

    NSA at RSA 2015

    At NSA's RSA 2015 booth there are piles of interesting schwag, with this year's two overarching themes being cryptography and OPSEC (operational security).

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • ​National Cryptologic Museum, RSA 2015

    ​National Cryptologic Museum, RSA 2015

    Several of the NSA's free schwag items were attuned for teaching kids cryptography, including this wheel from the National Cryptologic Museum.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • Enigma at RSA 2015

    Enigma at RSA 2015

    A rare side view of an Enigma machine (at the NSA booth), used by British codebreakers to decipher German signals during World War II.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • Bit9 + Carbon Black at RSA 2015

    Bit9 + Carbon Black at RSA 2015

    At Bit9 + Carbon Black's RSA 2015 booth, there's a human "army man" statue painted green to emulate the company's tagline, "Arm Your Endpoints."

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • DHS at RSA 2015

    DHS at RSA 2015

    As it is every year, the U.S. government is well represented at RSA 2015, with the DHS having a decidedly sales-y pitch for all who roamed near.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • Malware Playing Cards, RSA 2015

    Malware Playing Cards, RSA 2015

    Our favorite giveaway this year at RSA 2015 -- so far -- are the "Malwares Wanted 2015" playing cards (by Anity Labs and VirusView), which may have a slight language barrier issue, but are still awesome.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • eSentire at RSA 2015

    eSentire at RSA 2015

    Free robots! eSentire's RSA 2015 booth is giving away their robot army one dancing wind-up toy at a time.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

  • RSA 2015

    RSA 2015

    To say that this year's collection of RSA 2015 exhibitors and attendees is eclectic would be an understatement -- such as this scene, captured a stone's throw from booths belonging to bootstrapping hackers, NSA, infosec megacorporations, and everyone in between.

    Photo by: Violet Blue

    Caption by: Violet Blue

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The first day of RSA 2015's exhibitor show floor was packed with booths and oodles of creative, sometimes bizarre, gimmicks to attract attention. These stand out from the rest.

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RSA 2015

Thousands of information security professionals of all kinds streamed in and out of RSA 2015 at San Francisco's Moscone Center on the first day of RSA's sprawling expo.

Caption by: Violet Blue

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