Hi all,

Am Manikanth from Bangalore-India.I was going through the forum for quite some time and amazed to see people giving good guidance and carrier path.Please spare 2 mins to read this and suggest me.

I am having currently 5 years of experiance in IT but not any of the technical stuff my daily work is doing prodcut installs(proprietery) and setting up environment for customer.Like java,weblog and some scrap.Since a year am working hard on security to change my domain and recently cleared CEH v7 and ECSA .But frankly speaking i have only thearitical knowledge then practical. But i have all over all concepts .

I am having below skills :

CCNA,CCNP skills.(including idea about various protocols)-Basics
Programming skills (C,c++,java,J2ee,Batch scripting )-Basics can analyze code.
Linux-Very Basics.
Good idea about most of the security concepts.
I had quit my job because am not happy with the work i am doing and want really try hard something challenging like OSCP  .If i work hard for 2 months daily 10 hours can i get  through this.And is the skills what i have is enough as a pre-requisites? Please let me know am in process of arranging money to register for this cource.I have a week time now to register for this what additional skills i require ?Please guide me.I don't have any one to guide  so please your suggestions will be very important to me.

-Thanks,
Manikanth
CEH v7,ECSA/LPT

Hayabusa,

Thanks alot for replying.Your reply had given me some hope.I will start this course very shortly.Please let me know is basic sql is sufficient or i need to be master .Thanks in advance.

-Regards,
Manikanth

Hayabusa,

Thank you so much for your prompt reply..

-Manikanth

@manikanth - Try Harder

Hey Manikanta..

I hail from the same city, Bangalore. Good to see that people are getting into security field

You are at the right place (EHnet) for guidance
I think other members gave u a good insight into what u need for OSCP.
From the syllabus of OSCP it's clear that the course is more about network security than about Web App's security. So your CCNP level skills will come handy and other things u might need will be: Some basic skill in scripting language(Python/Perl/PHP), Able to read(understand) Assembly language code, Linux skills and before you enroll, boot ur BackTrack and try to get comfortable with some important security tools so that when you get on the labs, You can straight away start practicing than wasting valuable time trying to figure out how things work
And most importantly, get yourself ready to do lots and lots of research on own, manage your time... and always TRY HARDER  
I am planning to do OSCP some time around early 2012, so keep posting your progress and I might hassle you about OSCP when I am ready to take up the certification  

if you are not into any scripting language try learning Python.. it's easy, elegant and most imp' many security tools like W3AF, Scapy, SET are coded in Python. I think in OSCP you are expected to write your own scripts to automate stuff.
Dive into Python got a free ebook, good source to start with Python.

Hi Manikanta,

Next to "dive into python" what hurtl0cker mentioned, two sources for python I found helpful were:

1. A Byte of Python
http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python
-> basic intro to python

2. Learn Python the hard way
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
-> more for a practical basic intro to python

-Gromic

'Python for Hackers' I just ran into this videos last week while I was googling for 'Scapy' stuff. Two videos, spanning around 1hr each. The content is awesome, straight to the point.
gets your hands on 'Scapy' too.

http://vimeo.com/24408094