Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I offer insight on cyber security issues for businesses and consumers. This article is more than 10 years old. For the second post ...

Penetration testing is an important way for businesses, especially startups and mobile app companies, to find weaknesses in their systems before hackers do. It involves hiring experts, known as ...

Third installment in a series on spotting a novice pen tester Reviewing the results of a penetration test and discussing methodology is another way to assess the skill level of your pen tester (and ...

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, ...

To help you secure sharp, practical, trustworthy and innovative professionals to penetration test your business, ZDNet talked to some of the top pentesters, organizations and teams in the business -- ...

Conducting penetration testing in-house rather than using an outside consultant is worth considering for reasons of both cost and security expertise -- but it's also a step not to be taken lightly.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Procuring penetration testing services is a relatively new ...

I am a penetration tester — a.k.a. hacker, white-hat hacker, whatever you want to call it. A good-guy hacker, quote, unquote. A bad guy would be a black hat. They adopted those terms from Western ...

Moving a service or an infrastructure to a cloud-based environment provides a major challenge for cybersecurity practitioners. This is different to hosting the service or infrastructure within the ...