Re: Career Choice

[Mitchell Rowton <mrowton () gmail com>]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:09:44 -0500, Richard Kirk <saviente () gmail com> wrote:
> I am currently a student at DeVry University studding Network
> Communications Management. My true concentration is in security
> forensics.
>
> In any case the more I looking into vulnerabilities and network flaws
> the issues come from within the programming of the
> application/protocol etc. and most assaults use multiple programming
> languages to execute these attacks.
>
> I have two questions, the first is should I be learning how to
> program? 


It sounds like you may be referring to penetration testing rather than
forensics.  Programming is definitely a critical function of pen
testing and probably a little less important in forensics.  At least
an entry level understanding of basic concepts (sql injection, cross
site scripting) is a must in any security function.

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