Showing posts with label IT Risk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IT Risk. Show all posts

Thursday, July 1, 2010

IT Risk position update

I've been in this role for roughly 3 months now and I'm enjoying it so far. It's kept me challenged and busy the entire time. In my prior roles, I haven't had that. I'm also studying for the CISSP, so that's eating up my free time, but I think it's a worthwhile investment. I've been involved with everything from reports development to working with vendors on security solutions. So this is a great position for a 20 something person that has an interest in IT Risk.

The confusion now is what direction do I want to go in. I mean do I want to focus on governance, resilience, or risk consulting?

That's the next question

Friday, May 7, 2010

UPDATE:Transition to new role

So I started my new role about 3 weeks ago, and so far so good. I'm already getting exposure to the regular issues of the department like IT asset management, vulnerability and audit reporting, working with/pestering PMs on audit issue remediation.

 I'm also working through my transition plan. I did that after reading the First 90 Days. The book talks about how to be successful in any sort of new role.

A few books that I'm reading or in the process of reading that I have found to be interesting/helpful are:
  • The First 90 Days - Watkins, Harvard Business Press
  • The 7C's of Consulting- Mick Cope (e-book available on Safari/O'Reilly)
  • Managing the Unexpected, Weick, Sutcliffe, Jossey-Bass, part of the University of Michigan Business School Series
  • several Harvard Business Review readings such as
    Reclaim Your job-Ghosal and Bruch
    Managing your Boss -Gabarro and Kotter
    Managing One's Self-Drucker
Also it looks like I'm going to be taking the CISSP and the CISA by the end of the year. So I'm going to have a very, very busy year.