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Securing Your Network Gateway: A Firewall Penetration Testing Manual

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Firewalls are indispensable barriers between organizations’ network assets and intruding threats from the public network. Despite their efficacy as the primary line of defense and vigilant monitors, firewalls confront various persistent threats. As the threat landscape continuously evolves, it presents multiple challenges where cyberattacks circumvent the firewall barriers. Hence, it is imperative for penetration testing…

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Navigating Penetration Testing: A Comprehensive Guide and Conforming to Industry Standards

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Penetration testing has become a cornerstone of information security strategies for various organizations and industries. While the landscape of tools and technical methodologies for conducting penetration tests is vast, ensuring their effectiveness and success demands adherence to industry-wide accepted standards. Within EC-Council’s latest cyber security whitepaper, “Navigating Penetration Testing: A Comprehensive Guide and Conforming to…

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What is Penetration Testing

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Is your organization equipped to defend against the increasing number of cyberattacks? Penetration testing is one of the best ways to evaluate your organization’s IT and security infrastructure as it identifies vulnerabilities in networks and systems. Unpatched vulnerabilities are an open invitation to cybercriminals. The National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered 4,068 high-risk vulnerabilities…

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Why Your Next Career Move Should be Penetration Testing 

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Cybersecurity is a highly promising career choice today, with a growing demand for information security professionals. This industry offers many opportunities, especially in various specialized cybersecurity roles, including that of ethical hackers and pen testers, that organizations actively seek. With the significance of pen testing gaining prominence, choosing this field or making a switch can…

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AWS Penetration Testing: A Comprehensive Guide

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Today’s business relies on applications and data analytics. The more business processes an organization can shift toward digital systems, the more data they have to work with.Enterprise cloud platforms power these applications, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is among the most popular. As of 2023, Amazon claims millions of customers use AWS (AWS, 2023). While…

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Black-Box, Gray Box, and White-Box Penetration Testing: Importance and Uses

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Penetration testing is a cybersecurity best practice that involves working with an organization to probe its IT environment for vulnerabilities. By discovering these weaknesses in advance, penetration testers hope to resolve or mitigate them before they can be exploited during a real cyberattack. Penetration testing is pivotal in helping organizations detect IT security vulnerabilities and…

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Continuous Security Validation with Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)

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August 10, 2023 Validate security continuously across your full stack with Pen Testing as a Service. In today’s modern security operations center (SOC), it’s a battle between the defenders and the cybercriminals. Both are using tools and expertise – however, the cybercriminals have the element of surprise on their side, and a host of tactics, …

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IoT Penetration Testing: How to Perform Pentesting on a Connected Device

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| David Tidmarsh| Penetration Testing The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast, interconnected web of devices that communicate and exchange data via the internet. Any instrument that uses sensors to collect and transmit information can be an IoT device, which includes everything from smartphones and wearable technology to household appliances and industrial equipment. However,…

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What is Cloud Penetration Testing? Benefits, Tools, and Methods

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| Penetration Testing While many people see cloud computing as more secure than an on-premises IT environment, the truth is that it’s far from impenetrable. According to Check Point’s 2022 Cloud Security Report, 27 percent of organizations say they suffered from a security incident in their public cloud infrastructure within the past year. Techniques such…

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