RE: How to become a professional penetration tester?

From: Pedro Ortale Neto (ortaleat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 20:00:03 PDT

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    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:burchoff2000at_private]
> 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:troyat_private]
> 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
> <burchoff2000at_private> 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 may
>
> > gain more experience in the field during my college years. Also, I
> > would like to
> know
> > if there are any courses in particular that I should take in Computer
> > Science to become a penetration tester.
> >
> >
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> Troy Davis
>
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