Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I offer insight on cyber security issues for businesses and consumers. This article is more than 10 years old. For the second post ...

Penetration testing is an important way for businesses, especially startups and mobile app companies, to find weaknesses in their systems before hackers do. It involves hiring experts, known as ...

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 ...

Third installment in a series on spotting a novice pen tester Reviewing the results of a penetration test and discussing methodology is another way to assess the skill level of your pen tester (and ...

Security expert Wesley McGrew and his penetration testing team once found a Meterpreter shell inadvertently left behind by a previous pen tester on their client’s network. “That was one of our first ...

Penetration Testing is among the most intimate cybersecurity audits that an organization can undertake. Defined by Digital Forensics as "an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, ...

Moving a service or an infrastructure to a cloud-based environment provides a major challenge for cybersecurity practitioners. This is different to hosting the service or infrastructure within the ...

To help you secure sharp, practical, trustworthy and innovative professionals to penetration test your business, ZDNet talked to some of the top pentesters, organizations and teams in the business -- ...

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I am a penetration tester — a.k.a. hacker, white-hat hacker, whatever you want to call it. A good-guy hacker, quote, unquote. A bad guy would be a black hat. They adopted those terms from Western ...

A test of a network's vulnerabilities by having an authorized individual actually attempt to break into the network. The "pen tester" may undertake several methods, workarounds and hacks to gain entry ...