Tool Kit

So you want to be an information security professional? Well what do you carry around? Here's my list:

Backpack - sign of a pro, you may need to carry two laptops down George St in the rain. (I prefer Crumpler).

Mobile phone - you need to be in touch. Turn off the push email to save your sanity.

3G card - so you can type proper emails on a proper keyboard.

Laptop - smaller and lighter is better, you need a CDRW

Blank CDs and DVDs - never know when you may need to give someone something

USB Key - big, bootable and encrypted. We have a web app toolkit that runs off a USB key.

Backtrack DVD - just in case you have a hard drive crash.

Folio - to put reports in to transport securely and crumple free.

Green tea bags - you don't know what they might have at the client

Water bottle - Sigg, so you're not drinking wacky plastic.

Pen - not too expensive

Notebook - it's a bit rude to take notes in a folio sometimes, esp in a casual setting.

Business Card Holder - the cards get crumpled in your wallet and you don't take your folio to the pub :)