Cybersecurity

10 Tools You Should Know As A Cybersecurity Engineer

From scanning to post-exploitation, there are numerous tools that help you accomplish your goal as a penetration tester. Here are ten tools you must know if you are into cybersecurity.

Manish Shivanandhan
Stealth Security
Published in
9 min readAug 7, 2020

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Introduction

Being a cybersecurity engineer means being responsible for an entire network. This network includes computers, routers, mobiles, and everything that connects to the internet.

Thanks to the rise of Internet of Things, we see more and more devices connecting to the internet every day. Services like Shodan are proof of how dangerous it is to have an internet-connected device without adequate security.

We cannot rely on Antivirus software either, given how sophisticated today’s hackers are. Besides, most attacks nowadays use social engineering as their entry point. This makes it even harder for cybersecurity professionals to detect and mitigate these attacks.

Covid-19 has become another major catalyst for growing cyber-attacks. Employees working from home don’t have access to the same enterprise-level security architectures in their workplace.

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Manish Shivanandhan
Stealth Security

Engineer / Product Manager. Writes about Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Product Management. More at manishmshiva.com