If we search in internet for types of penetration testing, we may mainly land up in getting two sources of classification as given below: The first source classifies penetration testing as “Internal” and “External” types and they talk about the variations of these types of testing based on the information available to the testing team…..
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A security-conscious client will ask the following questions before considering Penetration Test (PT) on the system: 1. Why should I perform penetration test? 2. What advantages or benefits will it bring to my organization? We will try to address these questions. These are all my personal observations and the reader may have better ideas, which…..
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What are the differences between penetration testing and vulnerability assessment? Good question, quite difficult to conclude. Okay, there is often some confusion between penetration testing and vulnerability assessment in the IT industry. Many people in the security field incorrectly use these terms interchangeably. However there are striking distinctions between these two. So it is worth…..
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