Despite the large number of different protection systems, security policies and vulnerability scanners, penetration testing is one of the most effective methods for obtaining an independent assessment of the security of your organization, infrastructure and the level of security awareness of your employees when faced with threats. Organizations do all they can to protect their …
A vulnerability assessment is the process of defining, identifying, classifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities in computer systems, applications and network infrastructures and providing the organization doing the assessment with the necessary knowledge, awareness and risk background to understand the threats to its environment and react appropriately. A vulnerability assessment process that is intended to identify threats …
A penetration testing, colloquially known as a pen test, pentest or ethical hacking, is an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, performed to evaluate the security of the system. The test is performed to identify both weaknesses (also referred to as vulnerabilities), including the potential for unauthorized parties to gain access to the system’s …
