those Cyber Security guys which called itself #pentester or #Redteamer or #SecurityResearcher "just because" they are in university (learning something As [basics ;D more often] or academic things or out-of-date things ;D) and they "did not have any Experience" in Cyber Security Fields (even 1 year) and some of them even did not have any good/unique/new Cyber Security Research or tools/codes (which shared before to public).
and yeah we call them beginner "geniuses" in cyber security lol
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those Cyber Security Guys which they have at least 3-5 years experience of learning real/new/unique things in these fields like #penetrationtesting or #redteaming or #securityresearch .
believe me your academic things are "Bullshit" and your instructors did not have updated content , they even don't have good viewpoint for cyber security fields like Penetration test or ... ,more often they don't have any experience of working with Offensive tools like Modern C2 servers, they don't know how you can write Offensive Codes like Writing #C2 server/agent (and why should do that) or they don't know how you can writing Offensive codes for bypassing #avs or #EDRs or #bypassing other things ... you don't know about these things or a lot other things which you should learn them outside of university "by yourself".
you can learn these things from #infosec #communities (with read Articles or Learn Courses which shared Publicly or Privately by #SecurityResearchers and #Pentesters or #redteamers or #blueteamers) and you need at least 2-3 years experiences for learn these new things.
Some guys think if you know all tools in Kali linux then you can call yourself #Pentester or Red-teamer, which is not true "geniuses".
Penetration testing is not about Tools , its about background "concepts" of tools omfg "remember this". (its about logic behind tools)