Penetration testing (pen testing) helps strengthen cybersecurity by evaluating security vulnerabilities and exposing their potential impacts. Pen testing simulates real attacks on a system, network, or web application to uncover security flaws that could be exploited by hackers. It goes beyond just finding vulnerabilities to successfully exploit them and assess the effects. Pen testing is done both internally to test defenses against insider threats, and externally to test protections from outside attacks. The results of pen testing help organizations take necessary actions to improve their cybersecurity.

1. Pen Testing and
how does it help
strengthen
Cybersecurity
The previous year has witnessed types of malware such as Ransomware and other penetrating
bugs cause huge data breaches, jeopardizing the idea of Cybersecurity. Though, it doesn’t stop
here. Experts are estimating 2018 to witness a lot more such incidences, where companies will
be reviewing and strengthening their Cybersecurity strategies.
Although this is being projected, companies are continuing to consider the established security
testing strategies such as Penetration Testing (Pen Testing), Vulnerability Assessment, Security
Scanning, Risk Assessment, and Ethical Hacking. Between these, Pen Testing helps teams not
just to evaluate the susceptibilities but also goes deeper to open and expose their impact.
Penetration Testing is an authorized attack that is done on a computer system to evaluate security flaws,
which can result in a data breach or interruption within the system.
It can attack the system, the network, or web application to uncover susceptibilities that could in due course
subjugated by a hacker.
By leveraging software application, these tests can be automated, or they can be performed manually as
well. The main aim is to gather data about the targeted attack, check potential entry points, and finally report
the findings.
Pen testing is also referred to as white hat attack, as here the attack is conducted by the good people for
exposing the vulnerabilities. A Pen Test not only exposes the vulnerabilities. But goes beyond and
successfully exploits the vulnerabilities to evaluate its effect in a real-life scenario, where an organization’s IT
assets, data, and physical security system might get attacked.
Internal tests simulate an internal attack behind the firewall with official access. This helps
to evaluate the impairment that can be caused by an internal party if an issue arises.
Pen Testing and how does it help strengthen Cybersecurity?
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These tests attack the servers of the organization that are external facing, or devices such
as firewalls, Web servers, Domain name servers (DNS), and so on. The idea is to estimate
how an external attacker can penetrate and how far it can harm the system.
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Internal testing
Targeted testing
External testing
Targeted tests are experienced by all in the system. It is executed by the IT team and the
security testing team of the organization who work together to conduct these tests. At this
time, the impact is seen by all to take essential actions.
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