I hadn’t even heard about OSCP until I noticed that a colleague had taken it early in 2019. So I decided that I want to do the same. Fast forward to November 2019, and I decided it was time to do it. So I did. I want to share a bit about my experience (sorry, no spoilers), and my advice on how to succeed. My advice Unless you’re already working as a penetration tester, this should be about learning....

During my PWK (Penetration Testing with Kali Linux) course and lab time, I used VS Code extensively to write my own research notes. I used Joplin for enumeration and attack notes. VS Code combined with Markdown and git (and GitHub, Gitlab etc) make up a very powerful note tool. Below you’ll see a list of all the extensions I’ve added, which make working with Markdown in VS Code even easier....