Re: Best route to penetration testing learning

Thanks for the tips guys. I've seen the offensive-security.com website and I
was interested in that because it had the 'real' hands on labs and then a
certification that was very similar. It seemed to be the best for 'real
world experience' so I was actually going to take that course. 

I'll setup a test lab here and starting working away, but I appreciate the
opinions and direction. 

Thanks.


Archangel Amael wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> There will likely be many opinions on the matter but a quick link or
> two to help get you going, would be
> http://www.offensive-security.com/  While not an easy certification to
> be sure, it will likely be one of the most realistic in terms of
> actually using Penetration testing tools within a realistic network
> environment.
> For an extensive collection of free information regarding using
> metasploit and some other pentesting tools, check out
> http://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/Metasploit_Unleashed_Information_Security_Training
> as well.
> 
> Hope that gets you started.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:34 PM, wlandymore <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm new to penetration testing and recently took the CEH. I found that it
>> was
>> pretty basic but I was wondering if people had some insight as to the
>> best
>> route to take if you wanted to be a penetration testing engineer....
>>
>> Any courses/books that are mandatory that will help get me on my way, or
>> other opinions as to how I can get into this?
>>
>> Thanks.
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