September SecureOps Cyber Brief
SecureOps Management’s Corner
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SecureOps Cyber Spotlight – Edition #4
Don’t forget to check out our Weekly SecureOps Cyber Spotlight on our website. We just added our 4th edition of the Newsletter and want to thank you all for the positive comments and ideas for content. Our brand-new, shiny online newsletter will contain the most interesting, timely, thought-provoking stories that we uncover over a week or so. The articles and stories we produce for the Cyber Spotlight will come from industry research, while the Cyber Brief will produce the deeper dive, comprehensive articles we produce in-house.
We can’t wait to read and hear your thoughts and comments!
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In this Cyber Brief, we will discuss all things Penetration Testing, including Web Application Penetration, and the difference between Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Tests. As always, we strive to deliver content that is accessible, informative, and actionable, ensuring that you can make informed decisions and take proactive steps to enhance your digital defenses.
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Why Penetration Testing is Critical to Improving Cybersecurity Defense
The Benefits of Conducting Penetration Tests
Penetration testing has long been a primary method for organizations to test their defenses against cyberattacks. By hiring an outside company to pose as an attacker, organizations are able to identify weaknesses in their systems to prevent future breaches. During a penetration test, a CEH or certified ethical hacker simulates the techniques a criminal attacker might use during an attempt to gain access to IT systems, potentially including password cracking, malware, and even social engineering.
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The Difference Between a Penetration Test and Vulnerability Assessment – Part 1 of 2
Comparing Penetration Tests and Vulnerability Assessments
The staff here at SecureOps is consistently asked about the purpose and the differences between vulnerability scans, vulnerability assessments, and penetration tests – including all the variations of both, such as red teaming, capture the flag exercises, bug bounty programs, and more. Our goal in this blog post is to work from a high level and explain the general differences between identifying vulnerabilities to a more detailed level penetration test execution and ultimately walk through what the services are from a security perspective and, finally, what benefits the services offer an organization in terms of improving security.
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The Difference Between a Penetration Test and Vulnerability Assessment – Part 2 of 2
What is the Difference Between a Penetration Test and Vulnerability Assessment?
In part 1 of this post, we focused on the Vulnerability Scans, Vulnerability Assessments, and Vulnerability Management in order to differentiate the 3 prior to digging into Penetration Tests. Now, let’s introduce and define Penetration Tests, explain the test itself and its goals, and then go through the different types of Penetration Tests.
A Penetration test, or pen test, is the process an ethical hacker conducts on a target and the IT environment to uncover vulnerabilities by exploiting them. The goal is to gain unauthorized access through exploitation, which can be used to emulate the intent of a malicious hacker.
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The Fundamentals of Web App Penetration Testing
Defining a Web Application Penetration Test
A web app assessment, website application security testing, web app review, security testing for web applications, and several more all typically mean the same thing. Unlike a plain old pen test, which typically refers to a network penetration test focused on the entire network, web app testing will focus only on web-facing applications and is most often exploited because they directly collect data from clients and customers.
?A web application penetration test is an assessment of the security of the code and the use of software and libraries on which the application runs. Pen testers are security professionals who will search for vulnerabilities in web apps such as:
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Is Web App Penetration Testing Worth the Price?
The Fundamentals of Web App Penetration Testing
In this blog post, we will discuss the pricing and overall economics of conducting web app penetration tests. First, as a note, from a broad perspective, a penetration test is an authorized simulated cyber-attack on a computer system or application performed to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the systems or application from that of a criminal, hacker, insider threat, and so on. One thing to remember is that a penetration test is a point-in-time test that is or should be conducted periodically as systems, applications, and environments change frequently, and thus, so does the security of those assets.
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