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> Pentesting I think I see the problem. You're assuming several things here. Firstly you're assuming that pentesting is the definition of cyber security when i
by movedx 6y ago
> Pentesting
I think I see the problem. You're assuming several things here. Firstly you're assuming that pentesting is the definition of cyber security when in fact it's one aspect of a huge area. Secondly you're implying that everyone wants to be a pentester. And finally I feel like you read the article and came to the conclusion it was only about becoming a pentester, when in fact it was about getting into a much larger field that contains maybe jobs with many different objectives.
- ozim 6y agoSystem administrator should be main actor in security. Thing is no one wants to be system administrator now, everyone wants to be "cybersecurity expert/ethical hacker". Which in my opinion "ethical hacker" should be something that we call pentesters and we don't need system administrators to be "ethical hackers". I do not equate pentesting with all security, it is that people don't want to do boring job of sysadmins. People don't want to spend all day going through logs, going through alerts and sorting out false positives. Which is real job there and is boring and that is not what "hackers do". If that article would have title "How to become system administrator" no one would read it or comment it. Pentesting is really small part of security that should be an elite, because most of the work is in system administration.