How to become a penetration tester | Cyber Work Podcast

It’s been a while since we’ve talked penetration testing and offense-oriented network security on the show, and I know some of you have been asking for it, so today’s your lucky day!

On the show we have Dr. Wesley McGrew, the director of Cyber Operations for HORNE Cyber. We’re going to talk about going on the offense as a good defense, the current state of pentesting and the raw work of reverse engineering malicious software and vulnerability testing. If you’re looking for the type of job that gets you out on the cybersecurity battlefield and fighting the bad guys, you’re going to want to give this episode your undivided attention!

Wesley McGrew is the author of penetration testing and forensic tools used by many practitioners. He is a frequent presenter at DEF CON and Black Hat USA. At the National Forensics Training Center, he provided digital forensics training to law enforcement and wounded veterans. As an adjunct professor he designed a course he teaches on reverse engineering to students at Mississippi State University, using real-world, high-profile malware samples. This effort was undertaken as part of earning National Security Agency CAE Cyber Ops certification for the university. He has presented his work on critical infrastructure security to the DHS joint working group on industrial control systems. Wesley earned his Ph.D. in computer science at Mississippi State University for his research in vulnerability analysis of SCADA HMI systems used in national critical infrastructure. He served as a research professor in MSU’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Distributed Analytics and Security Institute.

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[donchile]

I think Wes makes a great point when he talks about how these programs or processes are eventually exploited by people that have an actual understanding of the low level functionality of the process. It's very true that a lot of the people developing these apps, don't really have any knowledge beyond that or know how it's actually translated to information and actions at the processor level.

[djunderwater]

I have a prediction that in the future soft soft is going to have a assistant like ozone 8 or sotNice tutorialng lol

[kornelious]

I'm a former network engineer, I just graduated a local university in Cyber Security covering linux, pentesting, red team blue team, splunk, kibana, Azure cloud, etc.. etc.. I also just got my Security+, I've built power point presentations, I have done reporting, and I still can't land a job in Cyber Security... I'm getting rejected left and right... And this stuff is way easy compared to my network engineering back ground and yet I still can't land a job...

[thebongreporter.]

You do great work bro. Keep it up bro.❤❤

[monkeylife]

Thank you so much! I can not wait to start setuping. I want to create original soft for comrcials and shows alongside my many other

[jasminetanna]

like What are the basics you need to learn to produce a, or setup it. Also I need to learn how to add soft notes to a .

[monnombre]

awesome informational valuable fascinating

[TalesOfTwoWheels]

Instead of reading out the entire intro, just say bullet points and display the entire text on the screen.