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Pen-Testing and Metasploit Question


From: ron at oneinsane.net (Ronald L. Rosson Jr.)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:32:35 -0500


On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:06 AM, max wrote:

No, pentesting is not about tools. It's bout the same when you would  
say
painting is about Brushes.

Maybe one can get away with core/msf etc etc but hey.. this is the
boring part of the job.

Nothing is better then being hired for reviewing something new,  
which is
not in the toolset.

All the great tools are coming out of a need by people doing their
work/fun. Pentesting is more about apply your knowhow in creative  
ways,
which is a definition of art&passion.


AMEN!!  ;) The methodology on how you go about breaking down your  
target is were the rush comes into play and the hard work pays off.  
Tools like MSF and Core Impact are just tools. In the hands of the  
right people they do beautiful things.




chuks Jonia wrote:
The most important thing is practice,  to understand how you can
pentest different platforms and networks. And also bypassing of IDSs
and IPS system. Maybe you have a good background in networking,
administration and development which adds an advantage, but this  
field
may need alot of work and patience to make it.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Professor 0110 <professor0110 at gmail.com 
wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm hoping to officially break into the Penetration Testing/Ethical
Hacking/Information Security sector within the next couple of  
years. I was
wondering if just having the Metasploit Framework for exploitation  
would be
enough in a Pen Testing situation - along with Port Scanners,  
Vulnerability
Scanners, and Back-Track of course. :)
The reason I ask is that Metasploit doesn't cover every single  
remote
exploit, and to compile an exploit off places such as Milw0rm can  
be time
consuming and inefficient in a Pen testing situation. Especially  
if the
source code is broken and needs tweaking/rewriting to compile  
properly.
Thanks. :)
Professor 0110
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