“A lot of people ask me how to get into it. The most important thing is don’t try to be a pen tester. People can start out by working as system administrators or programmers, becoming so knowledgeable about how their systems work that finding flaws becomes second nature to them. Then the security and penetration testing aspects will come naturally the more you know about the systems” David Maynor – Principal Threat Researcher at Equinix
Source: Dark Reading
About David Maynor:
He is a computer security consultant living in Atlanta, GA. He likes to educate people of technical topics through the use of fiction. He also likes to write scifi of his own creation. He is part of the Electric Sheep Scribes.