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Why These Are The Best 4 Cyber Security Projects
We’re sure you’ve read – and will continue to ;-) – many of our previous posts on Pentesting tools, distributions, and … [Read More...]
Why Python Reverse Shells are Like a School Bully
Python reverse shells are just mean because they work really well and get the job done for hackers and pentesters … [Read More...]
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How Lynis Makes The World Better For Pentesters
Lynis is an open source tool designed for security auditing, penetration testing, system hardening, and compliance checking. The tool performs in-depth analysis of the target hosts and warns users/system owners about security flaws and misconfigurations. Based on the discovered security and technical flaws, Lynis also gives suggestions to the users/system owners to improve the security and performance of the hosts/systems. Supported Operating Systems Lynis is supported by the following UNIX based OS. Linux macOS FreeBSD AIX HP-UX NetBSD NixOS OpenBSD Solaris Other systems that support Lynis … [Read More...]
Best Penetration Testing Certifications
No IT business can flourish without knowing its cyber strengths and weaknesses (gap analysis). A better cyber defense system can help organizations in achieving their business goals. At the same time, a poor or improperly configured cyber defense system can lead to irreparable loss. Organizations seek help of penetration testers to identify gaps between the deployed and desired cyber defense system of organizations. The gaps are covered on the basis of discovered loop-holes and recommendations of penetration testers. However, only a skilled penetration tester can find the security gaps and suggest the … [Read More...]
Why These Are The Best 4 Cyber Security Projects
We’re sure you’ve read – and will continue to ;-) – many of our previous posts on Pentesting tools, distributions, and certifications. Now we want to introduce you to several cyber security projects that aim at giving you targets which you can legally exploit/attack, to get better at Cyber Security tasks. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln Good Ol’ Abe was right. Our skills are our axes and, in order to chop down the trees – to reach our goals – we need to train, train, train… and, just like an axe, we must sharpen our skills so that, … [Read More...]
Why CRISC Certification Is The Next Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
Want to know where the real money is made in the Information Security industry? Management always is first and next up is Governance Risk and Compliance. Not the people that actually work defense day to day but the people that put policies in place and are aware of regulations etc. The CRISC certification would be the way to go for GRC. This isn't for everyone but if you can see yourself in that world more so than being a pentester or really if you are looking to make more money whatever the path then this is probably the path for you. CRISC would be the certification to put you on that path. CRISC … [Read More...]
Active Directory Certifications a bust?
So if you landed here you were likely looking for an active directory certification that you can get to take your career to the next level. I have some bad news for you and that is that there isn't really any notable and specific active directory certification specific to active directory only that you can go get. The good news though is that there are certifications you can get that cover active directory that you can get that absolutely will take your career to the next level. Active Directory comes under Microsoft domain. Microsoft offers a number of technical and non-technical certifications. Before … [Read More...]
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