Information Sources

Everyone's journey will be different but I think a lot of us end up with the same primary sources of information in the end. I recently moved out of the city and into a small town that has resulted in a commuting time of about an hour each way. In an effort to fill in this time with an activity slightly more productive than listening to a radio morning show I set off to find podcasts on IT Security related topics.

I quickly found a few podcasts, Risky Business was first, and learned of others as a result of cross promotion. After a few podcasts mentioned iTunes, I jumped into the iTunes store and discovered a tremendous number of related podcasts. Depending on your field and interest there are a number of podcasts that are worth checking out. The podcasts I've been listening to so far include, Risky Business, Exotic Liability, Network Security Podcast, Eurotrash Security Podcast, Southern Fried Security. A word of warning, not all of these should be considered safe for work but personally I find them all informative and entertaining. My suggestion would be to grab iTunes and listen to a few of each and decide for yourself. I have several others sitting in my iTunes library that I will eventually get to as well.

I've also caved and joined Twitter as @ejreid_ it seems like Twitter has emerged in the security industry as an important tool to keep track of recent events and happenings. My approach to Twitter has been to start following a few people and gradually grow the chain of people that I follow based upon the retweeted names that keep popping up.

I am also planning track a few security blogs and will do similar for them.