There aren’t too many professions in IT that makes professionals learn so many different technologies as pentesting does: one week you are neck-deep in Windows AD, the other you are trying to make sense of some custom thick client protocol in Wireshark, while you are running some webapp scans in the background. On the flipside, time is usually short, resulting in most tools never getting past proof-of-concept quality, causing much headache to practitioners.| Silent Signal Techblog
It’s not a secret that we at Silent Signal are hopeless romantics, especially when it comes to classic Unix systems (1, 2, 3). Since some of these systems – that still run business critical applications at our clients – are based on some “exotic” architectures, we have a nice hardware collection in our lab, so we can experiment on bare metal.| Silent Signal Techblog