DIY Penetration Testing to Keep Your Network Safe Penetration testing, or pen testing, is used to ensure that your enterprise is protected against cyberattacks and, with a little work, it's possible ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

John Orlando continues his two-part series on the ethics of social engineering for penetration testing. What follows in this column and the next is entirely Orlando’s work with minor edits. The cases ...

Vulnerability Scanning vs Penetration Testing: What’s the Difference? Your email has been sent Many IT security terms have proved challenging to understand due to their similarities and contextual ...

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