my-notes

Student Roadmap: Becoming a Penetration Tester

• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjMmwfwnGb0

• 22:25 - Growing Technical Skills
  • TryHackMe.com - students
  • HackTheBox.eu - students and professionals
  • VulnHub.com - students and professionals
  • HackerOne, BugCrowd
  • Books
  • Programming
• 24:50 - Speed Bumps
  • Lacking Experience
  • Lacking Certifications
  • Lack of Job Openings
  • Lack of Motivation
• 28:00 - Career Path
  • Helpdesk
  • System Administrator
  • Network Administrator
  • Security Specialist
    • SOC
    • Engineer
    • Network
    • Cloud
    • IA
    • VM
  • Independent
    • Researcher
    • Bug Bounty Hunter
  • Programmer
    • Software Engineer
    • Secure Software Engineer
• 30:25 - Pentesting Careers
  • Penetration Tester
  • Red Teamer
  • Offensive Security Engineer
  • Application Security Engineer
  • Ethical Hacker
    • White Hat
  • Exploit Developer
  • Consultant
  • Purple Teamer
• 35:35 - Certifications
  • CompTIA Security +
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (Written)
  • Junior Penetration Tester (eJPT) - pricy!
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (Practical)
  • CompTIA Pentest +
  • GPEN - pricy!
  • Certified Professional Penetration Tester (eCPPT)
  • Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
• 49:50 - Programming
  • Python
  • Bash
  • C
  • Java