Re: career adviceNov 23 2011 02:17PM Enis Sahin (enis c sahin gmail com) (1 replies)
There are great replies posted but I just wanted to share my thoughts
about programming skills and hacking/pentesting in short.
Being able to read code and understand it is essential just like
everybody said. Being able to write code is a little different in my
opinion. I was getting things done without writing my own code and
tools/scripts developed by others was satisfying my needs for some
time. It's only after I had some years of experience I had a better
attacker mind set and wanted/needed to utilize more elaborate
strategies, then the free tools started falling short of satisfying my
needs.
I find it analogous to playing a musical instrument. When your
understanding and ideas of music exceeds a certain threshold you stop
playing cover songs and start innovating :)
Enis
On 23 November 2011 06:11, Nathalie Vaiser <nvaiser (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>
> I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my question.
>
> I wasn't expecting so many replies (and quality responses). You have
> all been extremely helpful and given me a lot to think about and
> useful resources to look into.
>
> I'm proud to be a member of this great community.
>
> Nathalie
> CEH, MCP, MCTS, Linux+
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about programming skills and hacking/pentesting in short.
Being able to read code and understand it is essential just like
everybody said. Being able to write code is a little different in my
opinion. I was getting things done without writing my own code and
tools/scripts developed by others was satisfying my needs for some
time. It's only after I had some years of experience I had a better
attacker mind set and wanted/needed to utilize more elaborate
strategies, then the free tools started falling short of satisfying my
needs.
I find it analogous to playing a musical instrument. When your
understanding and ideas of music exceeds a certain threshold you stop
playing cover songs and start innovating :)
Enis
On 23 November 2011 06:11, Nathalie Vaiser <nvaiser (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>
> I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my question.
>
> I wasn't expecting so many replies (and quality responses). You have
> all been extremely helpful and given me a lot to think about and
> useful resources to look into.
>
> I'm proud to be a member of this great community.
>
> Nathalie
> CEH, MCP, MCTS, Linux+
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This list is sponsored by: Information Assurance Certification Review Board
>
> Prove to peers and potential employers without a doubt that you can actually do a proper penetration test. IACRB CPT and CEPT certs require a full practical examination in order to become certified.
>
> http://www.iacertification.org
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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