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Re: Career Advice
From: Brian Seel <brian.seel () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 16:49:45 -0400
I appreciate all of the advice from this thread. I took the advice of Danilo, Micheal, and Bill (although everyone in this thread more or less suggested the same idea... just in different ways). I did finally start a blog, and just did my third entry. Thanks for the push guys Brian cylus.org On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Michael D. Wood <mike () itsecuritypros org>wrote:
Brian,**** ** ** Good for you, setting up a blog does get you exposure. It’s what I do, plus it’s fun and it helps me to remember things I’ve played around with. Your efforts do not go unnoticed, someone will see the potential. My blog runs off a server out of my house, a hobby I guess you’d say.**** ** ** --**** Michael D. Wood**** www.itsecuritypros.org**** ** ** *From:* pauldotcom-bounces () mail pauldotcom com [mailto: pauldotcom-bounces () mail pauldotcom com] *On Behalf Of *Brian Seel *Sent:* Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:17 AM *To:* PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List *Subject:* Re: [Pauldotcom] Career Advice**** ** ** I am proud to say that I am working on setting up a blog (want to do it with Dango instead of using a plug and play blog to hopefully work on my Web knowledge which is in adequate). Thanks yo you guys for motivating me to do that. **** I am taking sans 560 this week (found out my employer had an extra seat and jumped on it). How does that compare to the Os course? **** On Mar 21, 2013 8:16 AM, "Dan" <xxsegfaultxx () gmail com> wrote:**** One thing that I can't recommend enough is the training from Offensive Security. The reason I like this training/cert is that not only do you learn the tools and techniques of how to conduct a pen test, you also need to show it in a practical exam. This also includes the most important element of pen testing…the reporting. You could be the most elite kernel hacker but if you can't document findings to a variety of people (technical and non techicanl) you've wasted a lot of time. http://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-training/penetration-testing-with-backtrack/ On Feb 23, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Brian Seel <brian.seel () gmail com> wrote:Note: I am trying to keep this email vague so it is generic forposterity's sake. I am trying to not make the question specific to my situation so others can use your advice.========= So long time listener (pre Ep 100) who has been doing computer securityrelated things for the last four years or so since college. I would really like to break into the pentesting arena, but I really like my current day job for a variety of reasons (pay definitely not being one of them).Basically, I would really like to do commercial pentesting on a parttime basis, where I take a week or two off from my day job every few months and try to gain experience in the commercial realm and get my feet wet with a different way of approaching computer security. Within the next year I would love to leave my day job and do pentesting full time, but I dont feel confident enough just yet. As a bit of background, right now I am doing some Metasploit dev for my employer, but I am not able to do an end to end pentest.My question is if you have any advice about the best way to try to get apart time pentesting job. I am not under any illusion that trying to do pentesting part time is not going to be an easy sell. I know that, but I think my unique skill set will make *someone* want to take a flier on me. But, considering that most of you are probably pentesters, or in fields closely related, what would make you want to take someone on in a part time basis. Or is there really no case where you would consider that?_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com**** _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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