Hi everybody welcome to the second to last video of this module.
So in this video we're gonna be talking about specialties.
So what is the specialty a specialty is something an individual has that they're a subject matter expert
or an assembly on.
So this might be a particular topic could be a particular program or facet of a program.
It can also be just a focus area that an individual wants to focus on such as maybe you're interested
in privilege escalation that was where you kind of focus your effort on because that's what is most
intriguing to you.
So a few examples are list on the screen so password cracking enumeration Prevent Escalation.
The operating systems Windows or Linux scripting external test web apps or exploit development.
Now keep in mind this is not a full list there.
There are a lot of topics and a lot of sub topics and each one that you may want to explore to kind
of find the specialty that you want to land in.
So why is this important to know it's important then to know that nobody is an expert at everything.
Everybody's got something they're good at or they just have to find that thing that they're good at.
A team needs to be well balanced so you don't want everybody on the team that knows pro escalation but
can't script thing.
You're always so in that particular case that team might open up a job posting for just a scripting
individual but on a red team focus they had red team experience maybe they have a red team need and
want and passion but they're normally a scripture or a programmer and that's perfectly fine.
That might be what the team needs at that particular moment.
It can also help you distinguish yourself from the rest so people who are generalist which we'll talk
about in a second.
You can distinguish yourself by being an SMB on a particular topic that the job posting is more tailored
to.
So what if you don't have one.
First thing is don't panic.
Most people don't have one when they start off there.
Most people are a generalist.
They learn what I like to call a they.
They learn 100 feet wide and only an inch deep.
Which is fine there's no problems with that.
However you're going to want to focus in at some point.
To drill down and learn a thousand feet deep on a particular topic.
So you are more familiar with that and being a generalist is really the most common type of specialty.
So in a general case you're going to want to try to decide what you want to do.
So how do you decide this you're going to want to learn a little bit about each subject to kind of find
find out what interests you or picture interest.
So this is where the Red Team nation can kind of help in here.
The red team blueprint is designed to hit a lot of aspects.
For example every one that we go up on that.
In this particular slide here everything other than exploit development is covered in this course.
Now exploit development is of course that I'm currently building as we speak.
It may be up by the time you're actually listening to this video.
However keep an eye out for it.
It will be up.
So we can help with that you touch a lot of different subjects.
Now when you find a subject that you really interested in you're going to want to go deeper learn more
and then you'll find different aspects around that subject that you might want to learn even more on.
So that's just kind of how it works.
It's a never ending rotation of learning.
Finding something new.
Learning finding something new.
So what I want you to do at the end of this video is go out and research some of the topics that I just
explained in the slides before you take a look.
Read up a brief introduction about each one.
A general idea of what it is.
Find out what interests you the most so you have a good idea of what you as an individual want to look
at.
So when we hit that particular part in the course you start getting hands on with it you'll really understand
whether or not that is the route that you want to take.