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Risky Context Week 1

So, I bit the bullet. Here I am, with my selected articles, in the form of a newsletter. While this will be a weekly newsletter, all of my…

Oct 20

Risky Context Week 1

Oct 20

Your customer may not want you to become domain admin…

Fourth post in the series ‘things no pentest course will teach you’ is out. This post talks about an alternate reality that an internal…

Jul 17

Jul 17

Some truths no pen-testing course will teach you…

Penetration testing (and security assessments in general) has evolved a lot in the last decade or so. At the same time, the underlying…

Mar 22

Some truths no pen-testing course will teach you…

Mar 22

6 important risky areas related to WAF for auditors and risk assessors

Nov 30, 2023

Nov 30, 2023

Offense is not the sexiest game in town, defense is…

To all those system and network administrators out there, who are thinking of jumping onto the infosec bandwagon, pentesting style because…

Nov 5, 2023

Offense is not the sexiest game in town, defense is…

Nov 5, 2023

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Nerd For Tech

Are administrative certifications ok if the aim is to become a penetration tester?

I see lot of people aiming at getting administrative certifications (e.g., CCNA, CCNP, Microsoft Certification exams, etc.), when they aim…

Mar 12, 2023

Are administrative certifications ok if the aim is to become a penetration tester?

Mar 12, 2023

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Nerd For Tech

Are you a top-down or bottoms-up person? it will matter while switching career in cybersecurity

In “build: an unorthodox guide to making things worth making”, Tony Fadell talks about bridging top-down and bottoms-up type of thinking…

Feb 26, 2023

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Feb 26, 2023

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Nerd For Tech

Risks of a cybersecurity career

Cybersecurity is one of buzz-words promising the la-la land these days. Everyone is running towards it. However, it will help if one is…

May 29, 2022

human jumping from one cliff to another, Photo by Sammie Chaffin on Unsplash

May 29, 2022

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Purple Team

A Day in a Pen-tester’s life

TLDR-It’s not all pen-testing!

May 9, 2021

A Day in a Pen-tester’s life

May 9, 2021

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Nerd For Tech

Do not kill your pentester for little or no value-add

Disclaimer: This could be a long post (culmination of many old posts) with lot of different opinions, thoughts. If weaving is not right…

Jan 12, 2020

Do not kill your pentester for little or no value-add

Jan 12, 2020

M S Sripati

M S Sripati

19+ years of Infosec Risk Management implementation and audit, VAPT Program Management and Managed Services, Blogger, 100K+ views on Quora

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