Penetration testers put their pants on just like the rest of us, one leg at a time. Except once their pants are on, they break into computers. Not all pen testers, however, are created equal. Whether ...

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 ...

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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.

Besides the fact that there is no other way to really test your network, The PCI Security Standards Council finally released version 3. 2 and it now states, “To ensure resilience, service providers ...

Healthcare data breaches increased 70 percent between 2010 and 2017, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And with breaches costing healthcare ...

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Penetration testing, or pen-testing, aims to identify weaknesses in enterprise security, but the tools and techniques of pen-testers are actively being exploited by hackers, BlackBerry has warned. In ...