The Business of Hacking: Creating, Developing, and Maintaining an Effective Penetration Testing Team

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M. Butler, J. G. OakleyThe Business of Hackinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0174-7_1

1. Introduction

Michael Butler¹   and Jacob G. Oakley²

(1)

Falls Church, VA, USA

(2)

Owens Cross Roads, AL, USA

 

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There aren’t many books on the subject of leading hackers. Trust me, I’ve looked. But if you look for a book on how to hack, you’ll find them by the truckload. In fact, if you took the number of books on offensive cybersecurity and compared it to the number of books written about other areas of cybersecurity or even information technology (IT) in general, you could easily assume that the field of hacking is one of the largest within IT. Of course, ...