RE: How to become a professional penetration tester?

[batz <batsy () vapour net>]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Jim Utkin wrote:

: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.

Agreed, but with one additional comment. As a security professional, 
you have to understand the business needs for security. In fact, you
will probably find more security consultants with business administration
or even MBA's than you will comp.sci backgrounds. 

Whether this is a detriment to the field is still open to discussion, 
but as far as how to start; A good (capital 'H') Hacker can be a 
passable intrusion tester, a good strategist, administrator, or analyst 
will be a good security professional. 

It's the difference between a technician and an analyst, which in my
mind is about $40k. 


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batz
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