Lots of people ask me how to get into the hacking field and almost always I tell them to start with pentesting. Pentesting is the gateway to a majority to all entry level offensive security positions, and the skills never stop being needed.
I did a deep dive on Medium author David Luchi’s article on Developing your Cyber Security Skills and Knowledge with these Cool Projects and put a pentest spin on it.
Enjoy!
Video Chapters:
00:00 - Start
00:09 - Rapidly Evolving Field of Cyber
00:37 - Cyber Specialties
01:24 - Pentester vs Hacker
02:09 - Pentesting Types and Skills
03:44 - Pentester Generalists
04:10 - Pentesting Experience via Bug Bounties
04:34 - Pentesting vs AppSec
05:10 - Web Application Hackers Handbook
05:35 - Analyzing Code
06:11 - Static Analysis and Dynamic Analysis of Code
06:55 - Pentesting Cloud
07:28 - Pentesting the Adversary (Blue Team Labs)
08:22 - Pentesting Passwords in CTFs
09:12 - Pick Something and Be Good at It
09:57 - The Most Important Part of Cyber
10:31 - Don't Forget to Sub =)