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Re:Want to start hacking? by vsareto on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:27PM (#32255502)
Pentesting related to national security or gov work can pay really well with a clearance (and the workload can be really light). I don't know if the private sector does pentesting pay better than engineering pay.

I found most of the pentesting salaries came in lower than engineering ones, and I felt that pentesting was the more difficult job.

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Re:Want to start hacking? by futureproofd on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:42PM (#32256637)
More code results in more bugs. You need to throw money at software developers to build something, anything really. Only then do you hire a 3rd party pen-testing company for a few days. That's the way it works in our shop anyway. It's unfortunate, but sometimes the expected velocity to achieve MVP glosses over best security practices.
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