Next week, I'll be in San Francisco at RSA - I'll be blogging some of the highlites of the show, including our event with Gartner and our cocktail reception.

We're also going to have an OVAL Board get-together at some point - should be interesting to meet a lot of those people in person, especially now that we're kicking off the development of the unauthenticated side of the OVAL schema.

I was talking to a reporter yesterday about RSA - he said that he had never seen so many security companies contacting him about a show before. It's interesting to see the growth in this industry. I think it's mostly due to the fact that security is a relatively big buzzword these days - there are a million people peddaling all sorts of interesting security solutions. And there's a lot of snake-oil out there, too.

It's great to be at a company that actually has satisfied customers and a product that genuinely makes people smarter about their security - we're not perfect, but I'm sure that there are going to be products we see at RSA that don't actually make life easier for the security departments out there.

I'll blog more from RSA next week - I'm sure there's going to be lots of good, bad and ugly out there.