Information Security Knowledge Overload - Swimming in a sea of whitepapers.

From: Blake Wiedman (bwiedman_at_iconsinc.com)
Date: 06/04/04

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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:35:52 -0400

    List,

    As a security consultant and long time administrator I have amassed a
    huge collection of vulnerability announcements, whitepapers, product
    manuals, ebooks, personel case studies, product reviews, research
    papers, and notes. As this has grown into the multiple gig folder size
    I am at the point where finding the info I need has become a timely
    task. I was wondering how my peers are handling the mass of information
    I know you are collecting. Is there a product, organization method, or
    tribal ritual <grin> you are using to datamine/find what you are looking
    for. I know a lot of products exist but most are for the enterprise or
    are only web enabled. As any consultant knows its better to be self
    sustained then require a net connection on a client site. Does anyone
    have a personnel product recommendation or method they use to keep track
    of it all. Windows or Linux is fine, free or commercial I am at home in
    both and open to ideas.

    Blake

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