There was an unusual level of gloom at the RSA Conference this year, and for good reason: a number of the biggest and most respected security firms have been very recently breached, including RSA Security, VeriSign, and Symantec.

This wasn't the first year the IT security industry was embarrassed. Last year, HB Gary Federal was breached and that event consumed a considerable amount of talk at the show. That's not to forget the recent big name breaches at organizations such as Google, the U.S. Department of State and Nasdaq in recent years.

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