How to Break Into Security, Ptacek Edition
Summary: In a Krebs on Security career-advice column from June 2012, Matasano Security founder Thomas Ptacek told readers that the best jobs in security are in application security and that learning to program gives the most control over a security career. His suggested entry path was to install old versions of WordPress on an Amazon EC2 account and use free tools like OWASP WebScarab or Burp Suite Free Edition to find bugs in them.
What you should know: Ptacek's advice rests on a simple stake: at the higher levels the field is a cat-and-mouse game where you can either break in or you can't, and your defenses either work or they don't - so the people who can actually attack software are the ones Matasano says are hard to find.
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