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Pen testing is a viable alternative in the same way that driving a car is an alternative to designing an engine. When your specialty is in finding novel exploi
by Kalium 12y ago
Pen testing is a viable alternative in the same way that driving a car is an alternative to designing an engine.
When your specialty is in finding novel exploits, there's not much of a market for you outside the government-o-sphere. In practical terms, pen tests are typically not focused on finding novel exploits.
Nevermind the vast difference in career expectations between salaried government work and consulting.
- totalrobe 12y agoThat is a good point. Ex military often have trouble finding jobs that match their skillsets as well. Not many civilian jobs encourage you to annihilate the denizens of under-developed, resource rich regions.
- Kalium 12y agoThere's actually quite a lot of value in finding and fixing exploits. It's just that many companies prefer the illusion that $1k is a reasonable bounty for SQLi.