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 ...

Open source security frameworks help enterprises stay one step ahead of attackers by facilitating penetration testing and vulnerability assessments on wired and wireless networks. Picking just 10 ...

BERLIN–Penetration testing has come a long way in the last decade, evolving from a somewhat controversial practice to a de facto best practice in the enterprise market. That evolution hasn’t stopped ...

Pen testing is the only real way to understand where the gaps in your security systems are, and proves far more cost effective than trying to recover from a cyber attack. But investing in pen testing ...

Penetration testing, once considered a risky practice for the enterprise and even a tool for evil hacking purposes, is becoming more of an accepted mainstream process in the enterprise mainly due to ...

How big an issue is the weaponization of pen-testing tools and how can it be mitigated? Davey Winder explores. Cobalt Strike is a penetration-testing tool used by red teams, providing adversary ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- Businesses face increasing security risks as the threat landscape changes and assaults target every layer of IT infrastructure. Organizations looking for ...

When automated pen-testing tools appeared a few years ago they prompted an interesting question: How close are they to replacing human pen testers? While the short answer was "not that close — yet," ...

I’ve been doing a lot of vulnerability and penetration testing for a customer who wants to see various simulated attacks and possible outcomes. I’ve been a penetration tester going on 10 years, and it ...

It takes a lot to shock Chris Goggans; he’s been a pen (penetration) tester since 1991, getting paid to break into a wide variety of networks. But he says nothing was as egregious as security lapses ...