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_8

8. Engagement Security

Michael Butler¹   and Jacob G. Oakley²

(1)

Falls Church, VA, USA

(2)

Owens Cross Roads, AL, USA

 

Engagement security is an often overlooked aspect of managing an offensive cybersecurity team. We are focused on evaluating the security of target environments, and sometimes we can be pretty sloppy with our own.

Team security and safety processes need to be established early in the team’s creation. Adding them later can be difficult as the team will have already developed its flow and could be somewhat resistant to the often annoying hoops we have to jump ...