To say the least, all of us here at nCircle are excited about RSA next week. Its a delight that the biggest security conference of the year is only a few blocks from work. To anyone traveling to SF, its been a bit chilly and the typical bay breeze has been picking up in the evening. I also see we can expect some rain late next week.

A few items I wanted to draw to your attention for next week.

* The nCircle booth will be at #931. Stop by and say hi. Check out demos and presentations. OK, yes, that a bit of a pitch, but its the best place to find any of us bloggers if you dare to meet us in person.

* Don't miss your chance to see me and Mike Murray back together again scaring your pants off by discussing the insecurity of smartphones. I'm genuinely excited to be able to collaborate with Mike again.

* Get your fill of the nCircle Slice at our cocktail reception

Details on our corporate website

I hope to find some time to blog while at the conference and look forward to meeting everyone.

Safe travels.

Well, I went to check a few last minutes items and it looks like something is amiss with the RSA conference website.

Heading over http://2007.rsaconference.com/US/ redirects one to https://2007.rsaconference.com/US/

what I got is blank site, with source below.

I'm guessing that someone didn't adhere to their change control policies.

Follow up 8:50AM: The site appears to be fixed now. I bet someone over there was sweating it out.

This evening I hit the exbo "sneak peek" available to full conference attendees. Its nice to walk the floor without having to swim upstream thru the masses. Of course, the free food and drinks never hurt. First impressions -- lots of "compliance" and "metrics" buzz words. Its always fun to watch the marketing evolution each year. As for best booth, my initial vote goes to Arbor. The booth entrance is a waterfall of smoke and a projector shooting on to it. The affect is stunning and catches you off guard. I'd also suggest talking to the Veracode team. They are doing some really interesting software security analysis.

Tomorrow is my turn on the smartphone insecurity panel at 4pm.

More to come as the week unfolds.

Tuesday began with skipping the Bill keynote to have a quite breakfast. Most attendees don't wander more than a block from the Moscone, so I was surprised to see another RSA attendee come sit next to me. Turns out that he works at Microsoft and didn't have much desire to see Bill talk again either. Though I never did get a good sense for his job and position, he'd obviously been in a few meetings with Bill given his personal account of said leader of the software giant.

Tuesday afternoon was our smartphone insecurity panel. The panel was a joy and we got a good turn out. The questions, though, were a bit on the light side. Either we had done a good job of covering all the topics, or everyone was bored :-)

The night was closed by the Veracode launch party. Lots of great people, a nice event and I got to awkwardly introduce myself to Simple Nomad. I'm sure he'll never remember me.

Today's plans:

Attend some sessions; hit the Vontu and PointSec booths. This evening is the nCircle reception and the blogger hook up. See you there.

--S

So a buddy just alerted me that PodTech posted a video from the security blogger meetup during RSA week.

Unfortunately, immediately after RSA I flew to southern California for a week. Hence I never got a chance to post the traditional RSA follow up. Lets just say that it was great week. By far, the security blogger event was the highlite.