One of the things that we are frequently asked at The Hacker Academy is to define what makes a really great penetration tester. And I’ve heard a lot of opinions. The really technical people out there think that it’s their ’31337 hax0r skills’ (“Dude, you should see how sick my shellcode is…“). But in my experience, that’s not it. When I look at what differentiates the average penetration tester (and penetration test itself) from the truly great one, it’s not …
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14Feb2011
New content, BSides San Fran, and RSA!
Holy cow! It’s BSides San Fran and RSA this week and we are totally excited. Just as a last minute reminder – Managing Partner of THA Aaron Cohen will be speaking today at BSides on “Selling Security Without Selling Your Soul”. Details below: Bsides San Francisco 2011 Zeum: San Francisco’s Children’s Museum 221 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA Day 1, February 14th, 2011 Aaron’s time-slot: 11 – 11:45 am PT Cost: FREEEEEEEEE! RSVP here! Also – Aaron and Mike Murray …
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08Feb2011
Aaron Speaks at BSides San Fran
With the excitement surrounding the upcoming BSides San Francisco 2011, we’re doubly excited to announce that our very own Aaron Cohen will be speaking. Aaron will be speaking on the topic of “Selling Security Without Selling Your Soul”. Aaron explains: “Most people don’t ‘get’ security, and it’s hard to convince them of what they need…manager, executive, boss or client prospect. We constantly try to persuade people with our ideas, sometimes they take it, but usually they leave it. Whether or …
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07Oct2010
Check out Dan at BSides Atlanta
It’s always cool for us at THA when one of our instructors speaks at a conference. This week, THA’s Dan Frye will be speaking at BSides Atlanta. His talk is on the “Basics of Securing PeopleSoft Architectures” – it’s one of the best sets of slides I’ve read in a while (and I read a lot of slides). There are so few people in our industry who really understand how to secure Peoplesoft, and Dan is one of the best …
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