Report from RSA

So I have made the annual pilgrimage to the city by the bay for RSA.  As usual I got in late Sunday night in order to be at the Americas Growth Capital Conference on Monday.  This was the 5th AGC Conference. It has become a must attend event for many CEOs and other C level execs in the security industry.  Uncle Art of RSA delivered the keynote. Based upon his previous keynotes, I am surprised there was more than 3 or 4 companies there to listen to him, as we were all supposed to disappear.  Anyway his talk focused on DLP, GRC and encryption. Hey, when you are a nail, . . .

Anyway, the Qualys party was decent enough, very similar to last year. Tonight I will be a the SC Mag awards show.  If you are here at RSA stop by the StillSecure booth and say hello!

In other news:

1. What would you pay to put perhaps your biggest competitor out of business? If you are Oracle, about 7.4 billion. Hey and you get Java to boot!  Not sure what else they get though. Not sure of the future of Solaris or Sparc.  But Larry now has added another Silicon Valley legend to the stable.  What does the future hold for MySQL?  Will they just kill it? We will have to wait and see.

2. While we are discussing M&A, Lumension bought Securityworks and Symantec bought Mi5. Ok, seems like your average deals, but I bet the Mi5 folks are a lot happier with Symantec stock then the Securityworks guys are with Lumension.

3. Cloud and GRC – So far those are my votes for this years RSA buzzwords. They seem to be all over the place. Oh and DLP becoming real this year. That sounds like a familiar tune!

4. Shameless plug. If you are here at RSA be sure to join Mike Rothman, Rich Mogul, Michael Farnum, Mike Murray and I Thursday morning for a panel on good security in tough times. Catch it if you can!

Have a great day!