By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Excerpt:
"Don't tell Iván Arce that security researchers are rock stars. Security is about as glamorous and sexy as unclogging a sink, according to the security expert and co-founder and CTO of Core Security. "What we do in information security is more like what plumbers do -- we fix things and get things working," Arce says. "You don't see plumbers being promoted as stars ...
"He got together some friends with mutual security interests and launched Core, which began as a consulting firm offering penetration testing services and vulnerability research …
"That helped inspire the Core Impact product, an automated, do-it-yourself pen testing tool that's considered the crème de la crème of tools, with commercial-quality exploits and a popular user-friendly interface that's starting to attract less-technical users as well as Core's traditional ones."
Source: darkreading.com
