I am down here in beautiful Clearwater Beach, Florida this week at the 15th annual Competitive Intelligence MindXchange hosted by Frost & Sullivan. The F&S folks invited me down to speak on CI based on some of the stuff they read in my blog. I was flattered and since it wasn't that far from home agreed to appear.  The conference has opened my eyes to huge effort that many companies especially larger public companies are putting into gather market intelligence and information.  Also the global focus of CI.  I always find it refreshing to meet people from outside my core discipline.  So security is not top of the mindshare here, but I kind of enjoying learning about something else.  You can never tell what you may learn that helps you later on.