Hey InfoSec Addicts welcome to another edition of whiteboard Friday I'm really
hoping that I can help you guys out today with where is penetration testing
going
I've got asked this question recently by a student who was trying to say well I'm
already a penetration tester but I want to do more penetration testing where
should I be looking to go in penetration testing so there's a couple of things to
consider the first thing to really consider is drivers so when you look at
a penetration testing you need to be thinking about well what drives
penetration testing there's two primary things so the first thing is compliance
so regulatory compliance and data criticality so if you work somewhere
that's a heavily regulated industry financials publicly traded companies
government obviously the healthcare industry these are entities that
generally will require at least an annual penetration test so you'll
generally have to do at a minimum quarterly vulnerability scanning and at
least an annual penetration test of some sort so these types of places are places
that you want to be thinking about because where you're working at is gonna
drive the type of penetration test you're gonna be required to do what if
you're like well I really want to do some really cool stuff well then I'll be
thinking about so much of the regulatory compliance I'd be thinking about someone
who's got really really really important data criticality so maybe some place
like you know Tesla with their batteries is like the coolest thing on earth
you know and they're really super secretive about that battery technology
you know so that you know that technology and you know that's really
critical so you know the the secrecy around you know how they're trying to
you know how's that data it's probably gonna require some really interesting
penetration testing right once you figure out where you're gonna work you
know then that is gonna drive the technology that you're gonna be
penetration testing so if you're working somewhere specifically like the
government oftentimes you're gonna be testing a lot of legacy and industrial
control systems right so you know if you're interested in that kind of
penetration testing you know yeah government is probably where you're
you're gonna be doing if you're interested on a lot of network
penetration testing also government as well now I do want to kind of throw
something out there and that is network penetration testing you know that in map
Metasploit all that kind of stuff that's actually I don't want to say it's
shrinking because it's not going away you know we're doing more of it so the
amount of penetration testing is going up but the salary for it is going down
and the reason is because the tools that you use to do the penetration testing
are so sophisticated today they really don't require such a highly skilled
person as it did in years past so because of that you're finding that you
know every year the salary for a network penetration tester has been declining so
if there were any advice I could give you that would be be thinking about
testing some of the other technologies web apps mobile apps cloud-based stuff
Internet of Things IOT and big data the reason is all this stuff in this box
below Web Apps mobile apps cloud Internet of Things Big Data these types
of technologies are are so new that there's not a lot of security testing
tools for them so because of that the amount of money that they have to pay is
higher because the tester has to do manual penetration testing he can't just
run Metasploit he has to do manual manual penetration testing so I would
really be thinking about that career-wise now a lot of people say ok
so which one is gonna make the most money and I don't think that's a good
question to ask I think what you really want to say is what interests you
instead of worrying about the money figure out what interests you once you
can figure out the technology that interests you you're gonna make the
money if you're good at it if you're really good at pentesting big data
you're gonna be gainfully employed if you're really good at pentesting stuff
that runs in the cloud you're gonna be gainfully employed and you're gonna make
a lot of money I don't want you to worry about that worry about being good
that'll get you the money next thing something I wish I had really
known to do think about tool development if you look in this space there are so
few security testing tools in this space if you develop a tool for testing
security vulnerabilities in this space I think you'll very quickly find that one
a lot of notoriety so great for job interviews people often want to see your
github page so that they can interview you second thing that you'll often see
is there's a potential to sell your product right so a lot of people that I
know monetize by selling their product right they developed a security testing
tool and then productized it and sold it to a security company right and a lot of
these guys got seven figure exits in other words they sold for millions so
think about that and even if you're not a developer I know a lot of people go
well I'm not a tool developer it's really not about how good of a tool
developer you are it's more about how big of a problem you see because if you
can identify a problem that's facing someone who's heavily regulated or
someone who has really really really critical data and then you see that this
technology that one of these entities implements has common security flaws
that you can say well when we test we should perform these types of tests on
these types of technology we're gonna find that there's gonna be someone who's
probably gonna want to buy that make friends with a developer get them to
help you to develop it or hire a company overseas maybe find an outsourcing
website and get started developing it maybe you can get somebody develop the
base of it and then open source it try to get more people's tons of options but
don't sleep on tool development as a real big kick starter to your path in
Pentesting alright guys that's it for today give me
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