Security expert Wesley McGrew and his penetration testing team once found a Meterpreter shell inadvertently left behind by a previous pen tester on their client’s network. “That was one of our first ...

Healthcare data breaches increased 70 percent between 2010 and 2017, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And with breaches costing healthcare ...

Definition: Penetration testing is a process in which a security professional simulates an attack on a network or computer system to evaluate its security—with the permission of that system’s owners.

Since 2010, Juliana has been a professional writer in the technology and small business worlds. She has both journalism and copywriting experience and is exceptional at distilling complex concepts ...

Penetration testing was much like taking a battering ram to the door of the fortress. Keep pounding away and maybe find a secret backdoor to enter through. But what happens if pieces of the network ...

Crowdsourced security has recently moved into the mainstream, displacing traditional penetration-testing companies from what once was a lucrative niche space. While several companies have pioneered ...

Cyberattacks have become commonplace over the last few years. No industry is immune to attacks, which have only increased in frequency and intensity as hackers and bad actors have become more ...

Meghan Gallagher is a Seattle-based freelance content writer and strategist. She has a B.S. in Marketing Management and a background in digital marketing for healthcare, nonprofit, and higher ...

In the past few years, automation in many spheres of cybersecurity has increased dramatically, but pen testing has remained stubbornly immune to this. While crowdsourced security has evolved as an ...

While traditional penetration testing (pen testing) has long been the go-to method for identifying security gaps in a organization’s network and web application, a new approach has emerged: ...

Established in 2005, Bishop Fox offers offensive security testing and consulting, helping companies identify vulnerabilities in their networks. Their security programs include penetration testing, ...

Penetration testing, or pen-testing, aims to identify weaknesses in enterprise security, but the tools and techniques of pen-testers are actively being exploited by hackers, BlackBerry has warned. In ...