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

HTC Droid Incredible

I've had my Droid Incredible for a couple of days so far. And so far it's been just that. Incredible. It's been pretty easy to use and set up/personalize.

I've been installing apps slowly-

• foxyring-to turn off the ringer automatically at night
• Meebo
• Goggles
• flixster-movies
• google voice locations
• layer
• radardroid lite
• shazam
• urban spoon
• wapedia
• amazon
• key ring
• chicago transit tracker

More thoughts to come later

HTC Incredible

I ordered my HTC Incredible last week Monday afternoon. But unfortunately I haven't been able to find out if it's been shipped or when it will ship.

Thanks Verizon.

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.

Wishlist

• Drobo FS +4.5Tb
• HTC Incredible
• Vibram Five Fingers shoes

my GTD/organization system

I think the most important way to understand an organization system is to map it out and figure out the gaps.

Tools

• Cell phone-alarm clock, calendar for major events
• Google calendar-Whenever I get a calendar invite on Lotus Notes at work, I post it to my Google Calendar so I can see what my week or day looks like when I'm not at work.
• mind maps (software and hand drawn)  these are my to do lists and references. If I'm listening to a podcast and hear about a cool band or think of something that I need to do, then I add it to the mind map. I much prefer the hand drawn mindmap, but for storage and organization it becomes challenging so from time to time, I incorporate my hand drawn mind maps to a massive mind map done in Freemind. 
• Post it notes-this is for the one-off additional info that doesn't need to make it to a page i.e. a reminder or a phone number with call in number for a conference call.
• Dry erase board at home for major/critical to-do items
• Blank paper to to-do list quick turnover items-tasks that will be complete that day. 
• Color-highlighters/color ink to accent items in the to-do list. I try to only stick to a few colors or the colors themselves can become a distraction. 

Google Reader:Sort by magic

I noticed Sort by Magic as an option a couple of weeks ago.

Helps me get through my Greader feeds quicker. Saving stuff I want to read later and allowing me to skim headlines/articles on that I don't want to dig deeper in. allowing me to spend less time reading while reading more.