Seventy-two percent of organizations said external penetration testing helped prevent a breach, according to a recent survey.

Secure socket layer (SSL) is a transport layer cryptographic security technique implemented by most websites today. All the biggies, including Facebook, Gmail, Paypal, and other similar sites, use ...

BackTrack 5, code named “Revolution”, the much awaited penetration testing framework, was released in May 2011. It is a major development over BackTrack4 R2. BackTrack 5 is said to be built from ...

Penetration Testing is among the most intimate cybersecurity audits that an organization can undertake. Defined by Digital Forensics as "an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, ...

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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.

Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting ...