Is pentesting an essential practice to be a "good" cybersecurity engineer/worker ?

Hey everyone, the title tells almost everything. I have to write a report on this topic and I would like to ask for your opinions. Ofc, this will help me a lot personally because I'm aspiring to work on the cybersecurity field.

Why am I asking about pentesting in particular? Because I did an internship with the SOC of an University, where I had to setup a SIEM. I liked this part of cybersecurity a lot, and I wondered if …

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