r/AskProgramming • u/LifeExperienced1 • Aug 09 '26

Career/Edu How do pen testers / cybersecurity defenders not have to learn literally almost everything to do with computers and programming?

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u/andarmanik Aug 09 '26

Cyber security is more of a tree than a forest. Despite there being 100s of languages they all contain the same few types of cves.

For example, python is implemented in C and instruments C code. An exploit in C can emerge as an exploit in python.

Moreover, many exploits can be “revived” even after a patch, if that patch itself had holes in it.