Ask HN: How did you get started in Network Security/Penetration Testing?
I can tell you how not to do it. I'll never forget the funniest interview I ever had. I interviewed with this company called Deja vu Security.http://www.dejavusecurity.com/I explicitly told them, via email, I have ZERO experience pen testing, or anything related to hacking. I'm a terrific software engineer looking to pivot into this market, would take a salary cut to get my feet wet and be mentored. Would this be possible? Are you guys remotely interested in an arrangement like this?They say great, when can we sync up? That's definitely something we can do.So we set a call up and the call takes literally 39 seconds, I'll never forget it. He asked me what experience I had, and I reply: None whatsoever, like I mentioned in my email I'm interested in jumping into this line of work though."Thanks but we're not going to move forward."Before I can even say thank you for your time, goodbye, the dude just hangs up the phone on me lol.