Jeremiah Grossman is the chief technology officer of WhiteHat Security, a Web application security firm. Grossman stressed the importance of coding, networking, and getting your hands dirty (in a clean way) The ones who can code almost always fare better in the security space, Grossman says. The best way for people who have already have coding skills to cut their teeth on security work is to start cutting teeth on projects, he says. There’s hardly anyone coming out of school with just computer security degrees, but there are probably still pretty rare.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/07/how-to-break-into-security-grossman-edition/