Dick Marcinko - The Chuck Norris of Penetration Testers

Since I started my college education, I've always had genuine interest in penetration testing. Dick Marcinko was a penetration tester, but not in the way that the average information security professional would expect. In fact, Richard “Dick” Marcinko, excuse my French, was a badass outranking today’s badasses. With his wide range of knowledge, skill, and training, Dick Marcinko could be put into the ranks with Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee. His special operations team, Red Cell, was responsible for exposing a variety of vulnerabilities via controversial methods in a range of the United States’ vital security infrastructures. In my opinion, Dick Marcinko operated with merit by identifying crucial loopholes in our government’s physical security efforts.