Hack Your Cybersecurity Career: Your Role in the Ecosystem
summary
Cobalt.io presents data from State of Pentesting 2020 analyzing ~1,200 web pentests (2,500+ run on the platform historically) and shows machines (when configured) reliably find common issues while humans uniquely find business logic flaws, race conditions and chained exploits; scanners, proxies like Burp Suite, ZAP or Fiddler speed work but miss auth/IDOR, XXE, SAML and complex session bugs that require human context. Workforce gap sits near 4.07M (need ~145% growth). Actionable advice: network, study 3 job descriptions, and add the specific skills those roles require.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:58Why Cybersecurity Matters
- 4:00Demand for Cybersecurity
- 4:58Successful Cybersecurity Program
- 5:27Cybersecurity Problems
- 6:35Security Vulnerabilities
- 10:04Findable by Machines
- 13:16Survey Results
- 16:11Cybersecurity Culture
- 17:31Checklist Driven Culture
- 18:10Engineering Driven Culture
- 19:00Money Driven Culture
- 19:58Collaboration Culture
- 20:35Next Steps
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