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Penetration testing was much like taking a battering ram to the door of the fortress. Keep pounding away and maybe find a secret backdoor to enter through. But what happens if pieces of the network ...

The accelerated transition to remote work environments has created the perfect scenario for cybersecurity criminals to identify and exploit new vulnerabilities. In fact, a June 2021 memorandum from ...

Definition: Penetration testing is a process in which a security professional simulates an attack on a network or computer system to evaluate its security—with the permission of that system’s owners.

You might have heard about the practice of pen test vendor rotation, or even tried it yourself. This is where organizations change their pen test providers annually to avoid complacency and maintain ...

As technology advances, ensuring the security of computer systems, networks, and applications becomes increasingly critical. One of the ways in which security professionals can assess the security ...

AI-assisted pen testing is getting better fast, but it's not yet a replacement for human creativity on complex attack chains. What it absolutely shouldn't be doing—same as human testers—is grinding ...

Penetration testers put their pants on just like the rest of us, one leg at a time. Except once their pants are on, they break into computers. Not all pen testers, however, are created equal. Whether ...

Although penetration testing might be viewed as one of the more glamorous jobs in cybersecurity – think of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible hacking into a CIA computer while dangling horizontally from ...

Besides the fact that there is no other way to really test your network, The PCI Security Standards Council finally released version 3. 2 and it now states, “To ensure resilience, service providers ...