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_3

3. Finding and Retaining Talent

Michael Butler¹   and Jacob G. Oakley²

(1)

Falls Church, VA, USA

(2)

Owens Cross Roads, AL, USA

 

After developing your vision and a basic idea of where you want your OCS to be in a year, the first challenge that you will need to overcome is staffing the service. Acquiring talent is a two-phase project. The first phase is proactively finding or more passively attracting candidates who are interested in joining your service, and the second phase is evaluating them to make sure they are a good fit.

As any job market survey will tell you, it’s difficult ...