RE: How to become a professional penetration tester?

["Jim Utkin" <utkin () 123mail net>]

Keep in mind penetration testing is just a small component in the
process of Information Security, if you're interested in a career as a
security professional, learn policies, system administration, network
administration, architecture design, just to name a few. No one can
claim to be a good penetration tester without being good at least 3 or 4
other categories if not all of them.

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.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: David Fuller [mailto:burchoff2000 () yahoo com] 
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:54 AM
To: Pen - Test List
Subject: RE: How to become a professional penetration tester?


From: Troy Davis [mailto:troy () nack net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:11 PM
To: David Fuller
Subject: Re: How to become a professional penetration tester?


"buffer overflows 101".  oh, wait.

just grab some software and start screwing around with it.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/assurance.html?dwzone=secu
rity
may be useful.


On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:39:53AM -0700, David Fuller
<burchoff2000 () yahoo com> wrote:

> I have been reading the archives for the past three days and I  would 
> like know where could I find a list of penetration testing companies 
> that give summer jobs and or internship positions in the U.S. so I may

> gain more experience in the field during my college years. Also, I 
> would like to
know
> if there are any courses in particular that I should take in Computer 
> Science to become a penetration tester.
>
>
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