Re: Penetration tester skill set,

["Michal Merta" <michal.merta () gmail com>]

Agree with you, Scott.
good knowledge of protocols and operating systems behaviour is almost
mandatory and pen tester should start with this.
I red interesting idea couple days ago.
Good penetration tester should be trained for dealing with other
people, because of Social engineering.
The results from social engineering are very often incredible!
Regards, Michal


On 7/25/06, scott <redhowlingwolves () bellsouth net> wrote:
> IRM wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I am new to the list and also to the security. I hope this is the right
> > forum to ask a question since it is called "security-basic" forum. I
> > came across to the archive on this forum and found an interesting post
> > called "Death of the security community"
> > (http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/105/428207/30/1590/threaded)
> >
> > Straight to the point, I would like to know; what is the 'typical' skill
> > set that a penetration tester should have. The reason why I asked this
> > question is because part of penetration testing is a vulnerability
> > assessment. On most of the penetration testing report it's required you
> > to insert the "proof of concept" section on how to get in to the
> > specific condition maybe in this case an administrator/root privilege.
> >
> > Running tools like Rainbow Crack or Nessus does not required a lot of
> > skill. In fact it is something that everyone can do! This is definitely
> > does not bring any values to the customer. At the same time, I need to
> > be a realistic too that finding a bug and writing the exploit as a proof
> > of concept are required a lot of effort. For some reason I can see a
> > dilemma in here.
> >
> > So back to my question; what is the typical skill set that a penetration
> > tester should have?
> >
> > Can anyone in here give me some light about this?
> >
> > J
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> One thing that i forgot:know the protocols for different layers in the
> whole ip stack.Or at least have a grasp for the way the different layers
> interact.
> Enough from me.I'm sure there are people better able to explain this
> than me.
> Just IMHO,my 2 or 3 cents worth.
>
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