With the arsenal of tactics that hackers have today, we must fight back and protect our data with an arsenal of prevention tactics, including testing. Penetration testing is an important step towards safer applications and organizations.

Penetration testing (A.K.A. pentesting, or security testing) is the process of testing your applications for vulnerabilities and put yourself in the hacker’s shoes. To do so, we start by answering a simple question: “What could a hacker do to harm my application, or organization, out in the real world?”

To ensure that a penetration test is effective, it must involve […]

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