Help shape the content before it gets published.
Join the PenTest reviewer community and use your cybersecurity knowledge to help us evaluate articles, course ideas and technical content before they reach our readers.
Your expertise helps us choose better content.
Volunteer reviewers are an important part of PenTest Magazine. By sharing your knowledge and professional perspective, you help our editorial team evaluate technical content and make it more useful for the cybersecurity community.
What does a PenTest reviewer do?
Reviewing is more than proofreading. We want your opinion on whether a topic matters, whether the material works technically and whether it is something practitioners would actually want to read.
Review articles early
Receive selected articles during the production process and evaluate them before publication.
Share technical feedback
Tell us whether the subject is useful, whether the approach makes sense and where the author could improve the material.
Help shape future topics
Contribute ideas and feedback that can influence future PenTest issues, articles and editorial themes.
Review course syllabuses
Reviewers may also be invited to provide feedback on course structures, syllabuses and other PenTest projects.
Grow your knowledge while contributing to the community.
Reviewing is voluntary, but active reviewers gain early insight into upcoming material and become a visible part of the PenTest community.
Early Access
Read selected articles before they are available to the wider audience.
Editorial Influence
Your feedback can help authors refine articles before publication.
Professional Recognition
With your approval, active reviewers may be listed in issues they helped prepare as part of the reviewing team.
Expand Your Knowledge
Review subjects across cybersecurity and encounter research and techniques outside your everyday work.
Join the Community
Become more closely involved with authors, editors and cybersecurity professionals around PenTest.
Activity Rewards
Active reviewers may receive selected PenTest products for free depending on their contribution and activity.
Becoming a reviewer is simple.
There is no complicated application process. Introduce yourself and let us know you'd like to join the reviewer group.
Send us an email
Write to hello@pentestmag.com and use “reviewer group” as the subject of your message.
Tell us about your experience
Include a short introduction about your cybersecurity background, areas of expertise and the topics you're most comfortable reviewing.
Join the reviewer list
Once confirmed, you'll be added to the PenTest reviewer group and may receive suitable content for review.
Participate when you can
You don't have to review every article. Take part when you have the time and the topic fits your expertise.
Flexible doesn't mean disappearing after accepting a review.
There is no fixed commitment and you can leave the reviewer group whenever you wish. But once you accept an article for review, the editorial team needs either your feedback or a message before the deadline explaining that you cannot complete it.
Reviewer expectations
Help us make every publication better.
If you have cybersecurity experience and want to contribute your perspective to the PenTest community, we'd be glad to hear from you.
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