The Pentester BluePrint, Phillip L. Wylie
The Pentester BluePrint, Phillip L. Wylie
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The Pentester BluePrint
Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker

Author: Phillip L. Wylie, Kim Crawley

Narrator: Matthew Josdal

Unabridged: 6 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/30/2021


Synopsis

JUMPSTART YOUR NEW AND EXCITING CAREER AS A PENETRATION TESTER

The Pentester BluePrint: Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker offers listeners a chance to delve deeply into the world of the ethical, or "white-hat" hacker. Accomplished pentester and author Phillip L. Wylie and cybersecurity researcher Kim Crawley walk you through the basic and advanced topics necessary to understand how to make a career out of finding vulnerabilities in systems, networks, and applications.

You'll learn about the role of a penetration tester, what a pentest involves, and the prerequisite knowledge you'll need to start the educational journey of becoming a pentester. Discover how to develop a plan by assessing your current skillset and finding a starting place to begin growing your knowledge and skills. Finally, find out how to become employed as a pentester by using social media, networking strategies, and community involvement.

Perfect for IT workers and entry-level information security professionals, The Pentester BluePrint also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone seeking to transition to the exciting and in-demand field of penetration testing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ted on November 21, 2020

If you’ve ever considered pursuing a career in cyber security, especially penetration testing (or pentesting), ethical hacking, or whatever the kids are calling it these days, The Pentester BluePrint: Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker is the perfect place to begin. Reading this book won’t get y......more

Goodreads review by Carl on August 24, 2021

Highly informative with awesome chapters that provide useful resource information.......more

Goodreads review by Elwin on August 05, 2021

A very well written how-to guide on how to get into the Penetration Testing career field. While reading this I thought to myself, if I were writing this type of book... honestly I would go down the same path and couldn't see anything the author really missed or I would have done differently. For me,......more

Goodreads review by Archit on December 05, 2022

The pentester blueprint is strikingly different from other ethical hacking books as it doesn't introduce you to the practical concepts which one expects out of such a book. This is a one of a kind book which focuses more towards the theoretical nature of ethical hacking and provides a path towards s......more

Goodreads review by Kārlis on July 22, 2021

Sort of guide to someone who is thinking about career change (or starting career after school). For someone with some experience this could be summarized in one printout, with some links and table of vital skills to have, but for someone starting from scratch - it's useful. I think it could be summar......more