Re: Career Advice

[Brian Seel <brian.seel () gmail com>]

I appreciate all of the advice from this thread. I took the advice
of Danilo, Micheal, and Bill (although everyone in this thread more or less
suggested the same idea... just in different ways). I did finally start a
blog, and just did my third entry.

Thanks for the push guys

Brian
cylus.org


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Michael D. Wood
<mike () itsecuritypros org>wrote:

> Brian,****
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> Good for you, setting up a blog does get you exposure.  It’s what I do,
> plus it’s fun and it helps me to remember things I’ve played around with.
> Your efforts do not go unnoticed, someone will see the potential.  My blog
> runs off  a server out of my house,  a hobby I guess you’d say.****
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> *From:* pauldotcom-bounces () mail pauldotcom com [mailto:
> pauldotcom-bounces () mail pauldotcom com] *On Behalf Of *Brian Seel
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:17 AM
> *To:* PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Pauldotcom] Career Advice****
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> I am proud to say that I am working on setting up a blog (want to do it
> with Dango instead of using a plug and play blog to hopefully work on my
> Web knowledge which is in adequate). Thanks yo you guys for motivating me
> to do that. ****
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> I am taking sans 560 this week (found out my employer had an extra seat
> and jumped on it). How does that compare to the Os course? ****
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> On Mar 21, 2013 8:16 AM, "Dan" <xxsegfaultxx () gmail com> wrote:****
>
> One thing that I can't recommend enough is the training from Offensive
> Security. The reason I like this training/cert is that not only do you
> learn the tools and techniques of how to conduct a pen test, you also need
> to show it in a practical exam.
>
> This also includes the most important element of pen testing…the
> reporting. You could be the most elite kernel hacker but if you can't
> document findings to a variety of people (technical and non techicanl)
> you've wasted a lot of time.
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> http://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-training/penetration-testing-with-backtrack/
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> On Feb 23, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Brian Seel <brian.seel () gmail com> wrote:
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> > Note: I am trying to keep this email vague so it is generic for
> posterity's sake. I am trying to not make the question specific to my
> situation so others can use your advice.
> > =========
> >
> > So long time listener (pre Ep 100) who has been doing computer security
> related things for the last four years or so since college. I would really
> like to break into the pentesting arena, but I really like my current day
> job for a variety of reasons (pay definitely not being one of them).
> > Basically, I would really like to do commercial pentesting on a part
> time basis, where I take a week or two off from my day job every few months
> and try to gain experience in the commercial realm and get my feet wet with
> a different way of approaching computer security. Within the next year I
> would love to leave my day job and do pentesting full time, but I dont feel
> confident enough just yet. As a bit of background, right now I am doing
> some Metasploit dev for my employer, but I am not able to do an end to end
> pentest.
> > My question is if you have any advice about the best way to try to get a
> part time pentesting job. I am not under any illusion that trying to do
> pentesting part time is not going to be an easy sell. I know that, but I
> think my unique skill set will make *someone* want to take a flier on me.
> But, considering that most of you are probably pentesters, or in fields
> closely related, what would make you want to take someone on in a part time
> basis. Or is there really no case where you would consider that?
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