What can I say; it's great to be back.  It's been too long (over 5 years) since I lived here. It's raining today, and I think will continue all week including my trip to present at OWASP in Brasilia towards the end of the week. Even though I've gotten my fair share of mosquito bites and even stung by a bee once this morning, the worst day in Brazil is still...well you get the picture.

During today's customer and partner meetings I wasn't at all surprised by the great level of interest there is in protecting Web portals and critical applications with Web Application Firewalls or WAF.   Banks in Brazil were among some of the first to offer online banking, and Brazil is also host to a number of prominent "hacking" organizations. 

I learned today that there are certain gas stations where you can even purchase CDs with stolen data - financial, credit card, user names/passwords, etc.  Apparently - there are a number of these CDs with government information on them as well.  Very convenient - fill up the tank, buy a Coke, get the paper, and pick up the credentials to your favorite government Web site.  If I can find one of these, it will be an interesting social experiment to see what they really contain.