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Professional organizations and vendors both offer industry standard, generalized and specialized certification programs, as well as those based on specific vendor tools. Some of them mix the two.

For example, one of the biggest and most focused pen testing certifications on the market today is CompTIA’s pentest+ certification. Although it covers general topics on pen testing, it also goes in depth on the tools you use the most. There are also other certifications, such as the CEH (certified ethical hacker certification) and the SANS GIAC Penetration Testing certification (covered in Chapter 16).

You can also start with general security certifications such as the CompTIA Security+ or the ISC2 CISSP.

It would also benefit you to learn how to write and submit reports and present your findings. I cover these topics in detail in Part 4.