Re: Penetration tester or Ethical hacker future?

[shyaam () gmail com]

I am not experienced at all, but I did understand the "overall" of any market. 

Human beings freak out if they will loose the jobs due to automation and scientific inventions. There are tons of 
people who becomes unemployed everyone and there are tons of them who gets hired somewhere else the next day. So, it is 
always a fluctuating market. Secondly, automation is not only to make life easier but on a business outcome, the main 
motive of a businessman is to finish a given task as quick as possible in the most efficient manner using leadership 
and management competencies as skills and doing things in an optimal fashion so as to complete the task and give the 
clients what has been promised to them over a RFQ or in many other ways.

Ever since the invention of lamps, people who were lighting up the street lights might have worried if they will have a 
job due to the one switch of a button. Ever since the invention of motor vehicles, people who were pulling carts and 
giving horse rides might have worried if their market might go down, which is ofcourse true. But then if the guy who 
knows how to lit the lamps, learns how to turn on the switches and drive the electricity to the required regions(called 
electrician) and the person who knows how to ride a cart with his horses knows how to turn the steering, he becomes a 
taxi cab driver. 

GIST: Foundations always remain the same. Knowing tools and latest skills will help survive, but in this field of 
Information Security, people generally tend to do latest stuff and expect so much in return. The thing is, they do get 
returns from the field, but many people donot give back anything to the field. 

Try always getting stronger in the foundational skills, know how the tools and pentesting kits are being made and try 
creating your own kits(that is not reinventing the wheel), or try extending the existing stuff. Then try to see why 
many existing systems and softwares are vulnerable, again more than tools use your foundational skills as they never 
change. Then try doing something for the field that gave you your job, money and what not. 

"When people pay so much to secure their stuff, then we better make sure that they are secured"-Dan Kaminsky(or may be 
someone else quoted before him), but anyways, try to do something for the "Security" community that helps the community 
as well as your learning skills while doing stuff. In these ways, you need not worry that your job will be gone whether 
it is automation or any other stuff. You will be known and you will know your stuff. 

Cheers!!!
Shyaam

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