In an era defined by rapid digital transformation, cyber threats are growing increasingly sophisticated, exposing organizations of all sizes across every industry to significant security risks. For ...

In today’s highly advanced digital world, cybersecurity is of the utmost importance. So much of any given business’s most valuable information is housed online. While this has brought about ...

Security expert Wesley McGrew and his penetration testing team once found a Meterpreter shell inadvertently left behind by a previous pen tester on their client’s network. “That was one of our first ...

Penetration testing is undergoing a structural shift. For years, automation meant running scanners faster or scripting repetitive tasks. Today, a new class of tools is emerging, agentic AI systems ...

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 testers put their pants on just like the rest of us, one leg at a time. Except once their pants are on, they break into computers. Not all pen testers, however, are created equal. Whether ...

Cyberattacks have become commonplace over the last few years. No industry is immune to attacks, which have only increased in frequency and intensity as hackers and bad actors have become more ...

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In the past few years, automation in many spheres of cybersecurity has increased dramatically, but pen testing has remained stubbornly immune to this. While crowdsourced security has evolved as an ...

A test of a network's vulnerabilities by having an authorized individual actually attempt to break into the network. The "pen tester" may undertake several methods, workarounds and hacks to gain entry ...

Besides the fact that there is no other way to really test your network, The PCI Security Standards Council finally released version 3. 2 and it now states, “To ensure resilience, service providers ...

Healthcare data breaches increased 70 percent between 2010 and 2017, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And with breaches costing healthcare ...