Penetration testing What is it?

Penetration testing is an institutionalized method of ethical hacking?

And its role is to examine networks, systems, mobile cloud applications, and software and look for security holes and bugs that can cause damage or can be used for malicious activity, theft of information and more?

Unlike red team or white hackers It is a regulated and time-structured process?

This field was developed in the 1990s with the introduction of the use of the Internet which connected millions of computers in the world and from an understanding that of course arose from the field that the systems and developments must be tested in advance and also in the process after the software is already active

?Due to the problems that had already started in the 1980s Like viruses that mainly caused damage and over the years many more ways have been added in which you can actually spy or steal and many more crimes or ways to harm?

In the beginning it was mostly customary to develop the software and only then start running tests on the system This process obviously took a lot of time and caused many delays and problems,?

sometimes causing the entire project or parts of it to be disqualified and rewritten and probably also caused a waste of resources, time and a lot of money?

And probably also a cache of projects Somewhere in the early 2000s, the understanding that the issue of security must begin already in earlier stages of development,?

at least according to a story I heard, began to seep in. Credit to Erez Metula Mr. Bill Gates stopped every microscope on one clear day for about a month to raise the issue of security in the various projects that were then in development stages and examine the issue of safety and start working on improving the security of the projects to make corrections before final stages

Over the years, and especially in recent years, both due to regulatory requirements and out of an understanding and need to test the products, tools with automation and various manual tests have entered And there are quite a few companies that have sprung up and provide the service to start-up companies and companies that develop various software and applications and the IoT field that is gaining momentum?

When at least some put emphasis on such tests already from the first and initial stage of writing the code and checking it in real time.?

Knowledge transfer and training courses for developers and programmers to pay attention and think about safety.

And of course, periodic tests for existing and working software (there are constantly changes in software that will be upgraded, updates, additions and it is necessary to test again either out of regulation or the responsibility of the developers to know that they are covered in the security issue?

Penetration tests are a very important tool in the development process of software based on a cloud network or mobile applications and we can say that it is impossible without it And it is no less important for proactive testing of applications which are already functional The issue should be brought to the attention of in-depth tests and not just those that are meant to signal that the process is done to avoid problems in the future And some of the companies that provide services also invest in developer training so that writing the code or using open source It will start with security awareness and prevent the breaches at an early stage