Picking has always been hard I guess. Thank you very much for the solid advice. I will keep it in mind moving forward.
Re:Shared thoughts after 6 years in Pentesting
by philprx on Monday June 26, 2017 @04:59AM
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Then don't pick: surf r/netsec and use anything you find fun. 1 month later look at what you practiced most and enjoyed most, here you are, some part of your brain actually picked the possibly right thing for you. :)
You don't have to do RE to be in software security. There's virtually no assembly-level RE in web application security, and very little of it in mobile security. Both of those specialties are more lucrative than RE, a specialty where maybe the top 10% go to high-status RE and exploit dev careers, and the other 90% go to low-status malware analysis and SOC jobs.
My advice is to pick a technology stack you really like and get comfortable with it at a nuts and bolts level, and then build security expertise on top of that. Maybe that's iOS and Swift, or maybe it's web and Django, or maybe it's distributed databases. Pick something, get good, and then be a security expert for that thing.