How much of your time is spent explaining your specialty to the non-specialist? Don't feel special, this happens in every domain and some do it better than others.

NIST recently announced the release of Special Publication 800-100, Information Security Handbook: A Guide for Managers. I know it is the common case that managers don't have the deep understanding of the domain but it shouldn't have to be that way. Heck, everyone is a manager at some level and again, some to it better than others. The ones that do it better have a passion for learning and are comfortable with others looking at them as a non-expert eager to learn.

URL to this Special Publication:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/#sp800-100

I'm a big fan of the NIST publications and have been for some time. Not many fathers can say that when their kids were very young, they read FIPS and RFC's to them. Sick I know, but every night between feeding and diaper changes, Dad was reading to them but I digress. In my opinion, NIST's SP 800 series is the most complete and useful set of Information Security documents to date. This is another one to add to the set and speaks to an audience I am sure you have to deal with on a daily basis.

--tk