Penetration Testing Simply Put
To keep winning in the never-ending cybersecurity battle, you have to know you are protected. The best way to reach it is to conduct a security assessment of your digital assets, which, in most cases, will be called penetration testing . Penetration testing, aka pentesting, is a valuable activity that provides a baseline for planning further activities, aimed to improve the cybersecurity posture of the organization. The penetration testing would be a combination of offensive actions taken against some web application, network, cloud infrastructure, or other digital assets, in a controlled manner, without intent to damage the operations of the organization, and by a specially trained ethical hacker. The purpose of these offensive actions would be to compromise existing cybersecurity defense and take control over the tested digital asset, to “penetrate”, in other words. Penetration testing is a sophisticated and complex process des...