Why should enterprises invest in penetration testing?
Penetration testing is a robust solution to safeguard critical data or a network from cyber-attacks and data breaches proactively. Penetration testing or pen testing, often termed as ethical hacking, is a technique wherein simulated cyberattacks are being conducted for identifying, testing, and focusing on the vulnerabilities in the IT ecosystem of an enterprise in a proactive manner. Usually, such a test is being undertaken by companies with expertise in ethical hacking, who are able to evaluate whether the security posture of a company, including the systems, networks and applications could be hacked by an outside agent or malicious insider. Pen testing also enables companies to evaluate whether their systems are adhering to compliance regulations. Penetration testing process Usually, the penetration testing process is undertaken in five stages, with each stage focusing on a certain aspect of finding the vulnerability in the current IT ecosystem of the enterprise. · ...