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_4

4. Team Management

Michael Butler¹   and Jacob G. Oakley²

(1)

Falls Church, VA, USA

(2)

Owens Cross Roads, AL, USA

 

In this chapter, we’ll take a look at how to manage an offensive cybersecurity service. We will review a few of the standard agile principles but this is not a chapter on the theories of project management. My goal is to discuss the real-world challenges that pentesting teams will encounter, present the ways in which I have overcome them, and discuss the lessons that I drew from those encounters.

Time Management

Time management doesn’t get the respect it deserves ...