Penetration Testing Archive
Data breaches are on the rise and affecting Irish organisations, most recently Eir and Cork City Council’s Park by Phone service. Criminal hackers are gaining access to organisations’ networks using a variety of techniques, so ensuring your network is secure should be high on your agenda. Penetration testing is an effective method …
That’s where penetration testing comes in. It’s essentially a controlled form of hacking in which a professional tester, working on behalf of an organisation, uses the same techniques as a criminal hacker to search for vulnerabilities in the company’s networks …
The terms ‘ethical hacking and ‘penetration testing’ are often used interchangeably when referring to the process of probing an organisation’s systems, but they’re actually slightly different. Let’s take a look at what each process involves and how you can decide …
