Ahmed El Gamil

During this summer vacation, i had a lot of stuff to concentrate on and increase my knowledge in..one of them was penetration testing, and after some deep thinking, i think that my future dream job now is to open a firm specialized in penetrarion testing which is a service that i don’t think we have here in egypt (and may be companies are not interested too much in the security systems of their organizations !)..

Anyway, so in order to be a professional penetration tester, you have to be knowledgable in the 2 portions of the game..the security game

1. Defensive Security: and this is the field of studies of most of the people out there studying security where they learn techniques that helps them to “protect” their networks and systems.
2. Offensive Security: where you can learn how the real Hackers and Crackers work, where you do the exact kind of attacks that any intruder will think of when trying to penetrate your network ,the bottom line is “think like them so you can defeat them”. Read more…