Ask a pentester anything

ask a pentester anything

What kind of pens do you test?

parker mainly

what exactly is the process of testing pens

Have you hacked the Gibson yet joey?

What qualities do you look for in a fine pen?

You take a pen, write a little and see what it feels like, if its good then you put it in the report its good

What does testing a pen involve?

that's my dream job

How much is one of those pens?
Do you make decent cash?

When this report is written, do you use the test pen?

seriously tho, I kinda wanna do that as a job. I'm middle of my CS degree. Any recommendations on how to get started?

doing a placement year?

You just throw Metasploit at the target or do you build custom tools?

Are you entirely automated or do you read packet capures, or whatever other raw repsonse data, yourself some of the time?

No no, I'm going to start my second year this semester.

> ask a faggot who gets paid to press a button to run nmap/metasploit/snort and write up paperwork for a living anything

Learn what you can when you can, i did a degree in CS and honestly i learned more outside of the course looking at stuff online and playing around than I ever did in the 4 year course

Most of the time I get hired by a company to test their network security, I run tests, mainly manual and write reports. In the past when I worked for people, I mainly did malware analysis.

I hardly use any of the tools you mentioned..

Do you hand write this review with the good pen?

Please stop

That's exactly why I ask how to get started. Degree seems great and all, but my interests are slightly different. Any book you can recommend?