Purpose of Penetration Testing

Purpose of Penetration Testing

Purpose of Penetration Testing A penetration testing, or pen test, is an attempt to evaluate the security of an IT infrastructure by safely trying to exploit vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may exist in operating systems, services and application flaws, improper configurations, or risky…


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What is Ethical Hacking and Type of Ethical Hackers?

The term ‘Hacker’ was coined in the 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to describe experts who used their skills to re-develop mainframe systems, increasing their efficiency and allowing them to multi-task. Nowadays, the term routinely describes skilled programmers who…


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Reconnaissance Cybersecurity

Active Reconnaissance Cybersecurity

Active reconnaissance In Cybersecurity Active reconnaissance is a type of computer attack in which an intruder engages with the targeted system to gather information about vulnerabilities. The word Reconnaissance Cybersecurity is borrowed from its military use, where it refers to a mission…


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Vulnerability Assessment

Network Vulnerability Assessment

A network vulnerability assessment is the process of reviewing and analyzing a computer network for possible security vulnerabilities and loopholes. It is used by network administrators to evaluate the security architecture and defense of a network against possible vulnerabilities and…


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Pentesting

A Complete Penetration Testing Guide With Sample Test Cases

Penetration testing or pen-testing is the process to identify security vulnerabilities in an application by evaluating the system or network with various malicious techniques. The weak points of a system are exploited in this process through an authorized simulated attack. The purpose of this test…


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Penetration Testing Vs Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment VS Penetration Testing

Vulnerability Assessment vs Penetration testing Has it ever happened to you to pay for penetration testing services and get a hundred something page “penetration testing” report listing vulnerabilities detected by a vulnerability scanning tool? Well, you’re not alone. The problem is quite…


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vulnerability assessment

What is Vulnerability Assessment?

Vulnerability Assessment Report Vulnerability assessment refers to a testing process used for detecting and assigning severity levels to a number of security defects within a specific time period. This assessment process could involve manual and automated techniques with different degrees…


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digital transformation

13 Points for Disinformation Detection [Infographic]

Disinformation As social networks have increasingly become vehicles for the spread of misinformation and fake news, one thing has become abundantly clear – digital literacy is a problem, and a great many people don’t know how to verify the sources of such material, which leads…


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