[The following is excerpted from "Choosing, Managing and Evaluating a Penetration Testing Service," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Vulnerability Management Tech Center.] Hiring a ...

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Businesses typically try to take steps to defend their digital networks, but many organizations discover their weak points the hard way: when they get slammed with a full-court cyber-attack. The ...

Misconfiguration ranks as the most common type of vulnerability discovered in real-world penetration tests, according to a newly published study. In client engagements last year, ...

Penetration testing, often referred to as “pen testing,” is a simulated cyber attack against an organization’s IT infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers. This ...

Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting ...

When evaluating cybersecurity and data protection risk for our clients, the two most fundamental questions that need to be answered are: How vulnerable is our organization to active cyber threats that ...

Penetration testing is vital, but are you doing it right? Here are some common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them. One of the most effective ways to uncover flaws and weaknesses in your 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.