Getting Started in Offensive Security

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Please note that this post, like all of those on my blog, represents only my views, and not those of my employer. Nothing in here implies official hiring policy or requirements.

I’m not going to pretend that this article is unique or has magic bullets to get you into the offensive security space. I also won’t pretend to speak for others in that space or in other areas of information security. It’s a big field, and it turns out that a lot of us have opinions about it. Mubix maintains a list of posts like this so you can see everyone’s opinions. I highly recommend the post “So You Want to Work in Security” by Parisa Tabriz for a view that’s not specific to offensive security. (Though there’s a lot of cross-over.)

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Getting Started in Offensive Security