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

["Blake Wiedman" <bwiedman () iconsinc com>]

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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