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What should you do if a friend asks you to perform a penetration test as a favor outside your normal job of being a pentester for a consulting company?
Start the test immediately
Start social engineering the friends company
Start footprinting the friends network
Get written confirmation(contract) before starting the test
Ask your employer for permission to perform the test outside of your normal work
What has your current employer have to do with what you do in you free time? (Answer, everything when you are doing the same type of work for your employer, it is call a conflict of interest.) This here should be something like "Get written confirmation(contract) before starting the test" - or something like that :) (True but that is step 2 after getting permission). I disagree because all pen testers I know are constrained by an NDA and a non-compete agreement, as well as, employment agreement wording also states that if you work on your own time but in the exact same industry then you must tell the employer. If you are just doing a friend a favor, your company is likely to say ok, your friend would never be a real client. Answer is completely wrong. You have to get written permission in ANY case. It is ILLEGAL to perform any penetration without written consent. Anything else comes second.
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