Sunday, March 14, 2010

Tools for Life-Long Learning Approach

 I have decided to save my responses to the information security discussions at different forums since I spend little bit time to prepare my responses.

Question:
"Can you recommend, if possible a one stop resource, to keep up-to-date with Info-sec news and researchs and new threats and tools etc?"

My answer:
There is no single solution. You need to combine many activities together such as:
  •  follow some information security bloggers (bloggers' names would depend on your interest in a specific information security sub-field),
  • follow information security tweets
  • subscribe to mailing lists or e-mail notification(SANS, CERT, MS) lists for new report releases
  • become a member of a society of your interest
  • get involved in the local Chapters (e.g. ISACA and ISSA) for their information security activities (luncheons, seminars etc)
  • follow the publications of ISACA, ISSA, ISC2, SANS, ACM, and IEEE
  • follow the newly published books through amazon.* and read the ones you are interested in
  • become a member of information security groups in LinkedIn and follow the discussions
  • listen to the podcasts and webinars
  • watch hands-on information security videos for specific topics or conference sessions at youtube
  • attend the security conference(locally or internationally) (if you can) or follow the conference websites for the topics to be covered.
We are in a profession that requires the adoption of continuous life-long learning approach. At the end, many tools are available out there and it is up to you which tools to use to adopt the approach within your career and life.

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