{"id":47139,"date":"2022-06-16T21:56:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/rsac-branded-a-super-spreader-event-as-attendees-share-covid-19-test-results\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T21:56:13","slug":"rsac-branded-a-super-spreader-event-as-attendees-share-covid-19-test-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/rsac-branded-a-super-spreader-event-as-attendees-share-covid-19-test-results\/","title":{"rendered":"RSAC branded a ‘super spreader event’ as attendees share COVID-19 test results"},"content":{"rendered":"

RSA Conference<\/span> Quick show of hands: who came home from this year’s RSA Conference without COVID-19?<\/p>\n

The cybersecurity event’s organizers say they’re not keeping count of attendees who say they’ve been hit with the coronavirus. Meanwhile, a growing number of folks have taken to Twitter to post photos and reports of positive test results after attending the conference. <\/p>\n

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This was one of the most shocking things (to me) about #RSAC<\/a> — it felt like nothing had happened since 2020 despite more than a million dead from COVID. Maybe 10-20% of attendees were masking. https:\/\/t.co\/egBEQlW4oA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Erick Galinkin (@ErickGalinkin) June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As someone who attended the show, wore a KN95 inside San Francisco’s Moscone Center where it took place, and returned home healthy, your humble vulture can attest to the vast numbers of mask-less faces of cyber-risk managers, who may have misjudged the risk of attending a 26,000-person event while case numbers start to climb again in California.<\/p>\n

COVID-19 vaccinations reduce the risk<\/a> of hospitalization and death, and may prevent<\/a> long-term effects of the virus. CDC guidance is to wear masks<\/a> in crowded areas.<\/p>\n

RSA Conference organizers required all attendees to show proof of vaccination or a negative test for their first entry into Moscone Center. Additionally, signs posted “encouraged” people to wear masks. Still, people wearing face masks inside Moscone were in the minority. And masks at cocktail parties and bars around the event were almost non-existent. <\/p>\n