Accidentally Awesome: How You Might Already Be an Effective Pentester

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Presented at BSidesROC 2015 by

Mike Lisi

This talk is geared toward anyone in a development, sysadmin, or helpdesk position that’s interested or potentially interested in getting into penetration testing. The purpose is to provide insight into the skills that the listener may already have gained in their current position that would make them effective as a penetration tester. The talk also describes skills that the listener may be lacking and should work to improve. My background as a student, helpdesk technician, network admin, system analyst, developer and now penetration tester, has allowed me to relate to anyone currently in these positions and realize what skills that each of those positions has contributed toward my successful transition into penetration testing. This talk will touch on many aspects of penetration testing (internal and external engagements, web applications, social engineering, exploit development, etc), revelevent skills that can be learned from the positions described above, as well as some tools and resources that the listener can refer to in order to build skills that they need to work on.