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New to pentesting?

Where to start, from someone who's been at this a while.

Three decades in this field have taught me that most people getting into pentesting get stuck in the same places — wrong order of topics, too much theory before practice, or jumping into tooling before understanding what they're attacking. This is the path I'd suggest, and the resources to walk it.

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About Tom

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Three decades in offensive security penetration testing. Speaker, associate professor, and Army cryptanalyst. Author of seven books and counting.