Last week I passed the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker exam. Yay to me. I am a professional penetration tester right? Negatory. I sat the exam more as an exercise to see if I “still had it”. A boxer returning to the ring. It is over 10 years since I passed my CISSP. The 6-hour multi-choice horror of an exam, that was still being conducted using pencil and paper down at the Royal Holloway University. In honesty, that was a great general information security bench mark and allowed you to go in multiple different directions as an "infosec pro". So back to the CEH…
There are now a fair few information security related career paths in 2018. The basic split tends to be something like:
Managerial - I don’t always mean managing people, more risk management, compliance management and auditingTechnical - here I guess I focus upon penetration testing, cryptography or secure software engineeringOperational - thinking this is more security operation centres, log analysis an…
There are now a fair few information security related career paths in 2018. The basic split tends to be something like:
Managerial - I don’t always mean managing people, more risk management, compliance management and auditingTechnical - here I guess I focus upon penetration testing, cryptography or secure software engineeringOperational - thinking this is more security operation centres, log analysis an…