Penetration Testing can be at the state-of-art level, or, conversely, disappointing. Much depends on your expectations, which are formed by previous experience. Penetration testing (or, briefly, pentest) is one of those topics that has been heatedly debated for many years. A variety of points of view suggests that this service is still difficult to perceive …
Vulnerability scanning is an automated process of proactively identifying network, application, and security vulnerabilities. Vulnerability scanning is typically performed by the IT department of an organization or a third-party security service provider like CyberSecuriosity. This scan is also performed by attackers who try to find points of entry into your network. Vulnerability scanning is a …
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 …
