What is penetration testing?
Penetration testing is a simulated cyber attack where professional ethical hackers break into corporate networks to find weaknesses ... before attackers do.
It's like in the movie Sneakers, where hacker-consultants break into your corporate networks to find weaknesses before attackers do. It’s a simulated cyber attack where the pentester or ethical hacker uses the tools and techniques available to malicious hackers.
Back in ye olde days of yore, hacking was hard and required a lot of manual bit fiddling. Today, though, a full suite of automated testing tools turn hackers into cyborgs, computer-enhanced humans who can test far more than ever before.
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