Penetration Testing Course C|PENT is Best in Class, That Helped Malav Outshine at His Work & Career
Job Title: Cyber Crime Advisor
Country: India
Malav Parikh discusses his experience with the Certified Penetration Testing Professional (CPENT) certification from EC Council. Malav explains how he wanted to upskill in the field of penetration testing to advance his career in bug bounty programs. He found EC-Council to be a guiding light in his journey and eventually discovered CPENT.
After completing the CPENT program, Malav’s vision of penetration testing has changed. He emphasizes the importance of self-writing exploits to continue upscaling knowledge and the motivation provided by the CPENT program to be the best. The real-world scenarios and detailed labs in the course outline were also standout features for him.
Tell me about your journey as a cybersecurity professional.
I was doing engineering. I always wanted to get into a niche field which doesn’t demand, you know, I mean which is not carrying out unnecessary work which is always carrying challenge. You work which has exponential growth to be precise. Hence cybersecurity came to my interest. That is when I decided I wanted to land into cybersecurity. So, when I started pursuing cybersecurity, I was filing for the right course.
And where it should cover all the 360 parameters, you should understand all the details and stuff and maybe that’s when I come across CEH, CEH help me to build my foundation so strong that you know I think it has helped me till date and it is an absolute amazing certification course. I think it has added to helping me find out my specialization. So, and with that I always.
Wanted to upscale in multiple domains. So, after pursuing CEH I started doing the computer hacking forensics investigator. I was incident handler, certified incident handler which is also from EC Council. Then I landed into compliance level certifications being a data protection officer. So, with all these credentials in and you know I was able to lend myself a good job at a Fortune 500 company.
I also have a few accolades which you can say it’s a Hall of Fame for, you know, valuable contribution to. A company for in in terms of security research. So yes, I do hold all of them into you can say MasterCard, fit beat.
I think my journey speaks it is a very plaintiff. I decided to dive into a niche industry where my work had to be valued. I wanted to get into research work and that’s how I decided my journey.
What caught your attention about the CPENT program? How were you introduced to it?
After having all these credentials in hand, obviously your growth is not going to stop. So, it is when I decided to be the best.
So, I would basically I wanted to upskill into specific domain, especially penetration testing because I’m all into a lot of bug bounty than bug vulnerability management and stuff comes into day by day. So, when I decided I wanted to upskill, that’s when I decided about searching for the right courses. Obviously EC-Council has been a guiding light for me.
I started my journey with EC-Council and that’s when I knew that it had two had something the best in market and. I think that’s when it caught my attention.
Tell me 3 things that you really liked about the C|PENT program.
So come before coming to the technicalities of what I like. As when I started my journey into security, I’ve always learned that there are script kiddies and you know, people who follow the tools and stuff. But
that is there. And most importantly, CPENT has changed the vision it has. It provides motivation to be the best. And I think that’s the best part of this course. Apart from that, yes, real-world scenarios, the labs are the best and the level of detailing into the course outline. I think that is the comprehensive rethink that is the best part of this course.
What was your lab experience in the program?
labs, I mean I’ve always you know,
that is that is my view. There are a lot of labs we do. There are a lot of vulnerable boxes we play with. OK, but. In working on these labs, I think it’s a class apart. So that’s what I believe.
What tools or topic from the program do you use on a day-to-day basis?
So, I think penetration testing itself is you know across all aspects is something that comes up on the day-to-day basis see tools yes but then after doing CPENT. It is now, motivating me to develop Tools and I think that’s my vision heads now. So whatever penetration testing market available tools, commercial tools are there, yes, that we use, but apart from that. Self-development for the exploits and tools. I think that is where I am more excited about.
None other programs than CPENT would have motivated to do so.
How has CPENT benefitted your career?
I have seen CPENT claiming to be, you know, developing the world class penetration testers. Maybe you can see the best in class but my experience after doing CPENT is I’ve got a difference in mind. So, for me there are penetration testers and then there are elite penetration testers. So, it has definitely helped me outshine at work in career progress. See as I also told previously, there are only 100+ CPENT certified professionals globally. OK, it is not an easy job to do. It is a tough job to crack and the demand. And it is, it is very fruitful that I mean the whatever. You know,
CPENT has done for me. It has, it has been very fruitful. I mean, I’m able to outshine my work outshine myself in the industry, in the market and in fact in my corporate work as well.
How would you compare CPENT program with other programs?
OK, I feel that, while doing my analysis for such a certified course, I had actually gone through a lot many courses available in the market. But what I have felt is that these programs are a bit overrated these days, and people you know blindly run for it without knowing the actual value of the program.
I think. This is a big, big, big difference by CPENT is, you know. Much better. The best in class in the market as currently as of now. Yeah.
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