Information sources
Our field of expertise is very dynamic and always changing. It demands professional penetration testers or ethical hackers to be aware and keep abreast of new technologies, trends, attacks, and vulnerabilities.
There is no excuse for a penetration tester who checks an infrastructure against attacks during the time of Windows 95 and does not assess the possibility of launching an attack on a newly discovered vulnerability that is breaking networks or applications all over the world at the same time.
Important information types and news for staying up-to-date and competent in our profession are:
- Information on new vulnerabilities, new attack types, and scenarios
- News about changes in the existing or new technologies, protocols, standards, and information security-related laws
- News about big compromises and data breaches in the corporate world
- Security reports and whitepapers
- Security research results
You can obtain such information from the following sources:
- Various security newsfeeds...