I think there’s a couple fronts that make a good red teamer. The technical side of being operator is less about knowing how to use tools (that’s easy to teach) and more about knowing how the technologies you’re attacking works. Having an understanding of how things work at a company gives you the context of how to attack and abuse it.
For example the stronger your sysadmin skills, the better you’re going to be at moving through an enterprise. Stuff like knowing how group policies work, having a solid understanding of AD. It’s all about having that context so you know how to abuse it. Having a development background gives you the context of how to abuse CI/CD systems and such. Knowing how kubernetes, how cloud works, gives you context on how to maneuver around it. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve used a single exploit in red teaming (which probably means I’ve left stuff on the table and made life harder for myself lol), it’s all been about finding and abusing misconfigurations in environments.
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