The road less travelled: Hacker Lyon Yang’s penetration tales

BECOMING a penetration tester – or a ‘hacker’ in less polite company – is a rare thing in this part of the world, as Asian parents often push their children to become doctors, engineers or bankers.
 
This makes Lyon Yang (pic above), senior security consultant with Vantage Point Security, pretty much an outlier.
 
A penetration tester is a person who looks for exploits or vulnerabilities that can be used to penetrate a network or system. It has been three years since Yang took up this particular discipline, and he has had no regrets so far. “It’s very fun and there’s an adrenaline rush when you manage to break into a system and own it,” Yang told Digital News Asia (DNA) in Singapore, adding that he has always had a passion for computers “and stuff like that.”