Cybersecurity
Penetration Testing / Red Team career guide
Finds and exploits vulnerabilities in authorized engagements and reports how to fix them.
Job titles
- Penetration Tester
- Ethical Hacker
- Red Team Operator
Skills employers ask for
- Penetration testing
- Web application testing
- Network penetration testing
- Exploitation
- Privilege escalation
- Active Directory attacks
- Reconnaissance
- Social engineering
- Report writing
- Vulnerability assessment
- Red teaming
- Rules of engagement
- Lateral movement
- Post-exploitation
- Burp Suite
- Nmap
- Metasploit
- Kali Linux
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What does a Penetration Testing / Red Team do?
Finds and exploits vulnerabilities in authorized engagements and reports how to fix them.
What skills does a Penetration Testing / Red Team need?
Common skills in Penetration Testing / Red Team postings include Penetration testing, Web application testing, Network penetration testing, Exploitation, Privilege escalation, Active Directory attacks, Reconnaissance, Social engineering, Report writing, Vulnerability assessment.
Which certifications help for Penetration Testing / Red Team roles?
Employers often ask for PenTest+, OSCP, PNPT, eJPT, CRTP, CEH.
How many Penetration Testing / Red Team jobs are open?
ReconHire lists about 4 recent postings that match Penetration Testing / Red Team titles, and 1 of them are remote.