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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Speaking during the virtual (ISC) 2 Security Congress Alex Haynes, CISO at CDL, explored the various pen-testing approaches available to organizations and outlined how companies can determine which is ...

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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 ...