Why iScribe?
At NII Consulting, as information security professionals, the body of our work gets reflected as service reports to the clients. More than often, our work - findings, anaylsis, and recommendations take the form of mute documents and sign-off presentations. All our communication is not only a part of the service offering but also a primary platform for showcasing our expertise.
Over the years, we have learnt to give our clients what they ‘need’ even when sometimes they are unaware of their ‘requirements’. We have learnt to understand and rate the risk agents, and risk levels of various findings for the different projects we executed. We have learnt to communicate effectively and provide appropriate services using our technical expertise.
A little history: As we successfully completed and are still completing some challenging InfoSec documentation projects, we learnt that it was not possible the easy way. It was not feasible to hire a technical writer, train him/her for a few months and expect documents which add true value to a product or a service. We realized that prolonged exposure to the domain (of course peppered with many other obvious factors) was a key to delivering true quality.
Coming back to iScribe, the reason…
Learning and Growing: We learn in several ways,
1. through books, web sites, wikis, blogs, mailing lists
2. through others’ experiences
3. and the best way - through our own experiences
With iScribe, we intend to - firstly, try to disseminate all types of information on InfoSec documentation and related topics that we already know.
Secondly, we will share our experiences and lessons learnt while executing projects and hope that you will share yours as well (even non-InfoSec experiences, pertinent to technical communication or applicable as suitable).
We intend to create a learning platform for all interested, all new comers, seasoned professionals, budding information security experts, technical writers, instructional designers, documentation experts, etc. to further improvise their information security documentation practices.
iSribe, a union of technical communication and Information Security is a blog on documentation requirements of the InfoSec domain, security implications of documentation technologies, tools and practices, and the information security perspective on information standards with occassional blurbs of the writer’s views and lessons in technical communication.