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Re: How to become a professional penetration tester?
From: "Meritt James" <meritt_james () bah com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:56:10 -0400
I cannot emphasize what Pedro said enough!!! Read: http://www.informationweek.com/780/80uwjm.htm Pedro Ortale Neto wrote:
Complementing, You can't forget the honesty and ethics. Keep in mind, just technical skills are not enought to this position. Best wishes, Pedro Ortale On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Jim Utkin wrote:Keep in mind penetration testing is just a small component in the process of Information Security, if you're interested in a career as a security professional, learn policies, system administration, network administration, architecture design, just to name a few. No one can claim to be a good penetration tester without being good at least 3 or 4 other categories if not all of them. Being a security professional IMHO is the hardest specialty in Information Technology, you have to be good in almost every aspect of IT, but an expert at none. Jim -----Original Message----- From: David Fuller [mailto:burchoff2000 () yahoo com] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:54 AM To: Pen - Test List Subject: RE: How to become a professional penetration tester? From: Troy Davis [mailto:troy () nack net] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:11 PM To: David Fuller Subject: Re: How to become a professional penetration tester? "buffer overflows 101". oh, wait. just grab some software and start screwing around with it. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/assurance.html?dwzone=secu rity may be useful. On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:39:53AM -0700, David Fuller <burchoff2000 () yahoo com> wrote:I have been reading the archives for the past three days and I would like know where could I find a list of penetration testing companies that give summer jobs and or internship positions in the U.S. so I maygain more experience in the field during my college years. Also, I would like toknowif there are any courses in particular that I should take in Computer Science to become a penetration tester. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com-- Troy Davis _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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Current thread:
- How to become a professional penetration tester? David Fuller (Jun 05)
- RE: How to become a professional penetration tester? David Fuller (Jun 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: How to become a professional penetration tester? David Fuller (Jun 08)
- RE: How to become a professional penetration tester? Jim Utkin (Jun 15)
- RE: How to become a professional penetration tester? Pedro Ortale Neto (Jun 18)
- Re: How to become a professional penetration tester? Meritt James (Jun 18)
- RE: How to become a professional penetration tester? batz (Jun 18)
- RE: How to become a professional penetration tester? Jim Utkin (Jun 15)
- Re: How to become a professional penetration tester? Meritt James (Jun 18)
- RE: How to become a professional penetration tester? Spencer, Ed M. -ND (Jun 18)