Pen testing: A 7-step guide
Penetration testing is a kind of security testing, which is beneficial in testing the application security. The tester performs such kind of testing in finding different security risks which are present in the specific system. In case the system is not secured properly, there are risks that the attacker might be successful in accessing the system. Security risks refer to the accidental errors, which occur during the development and implementation of the software. This kind of testing plays an integral role in evaluating the system's capabilities in protecting the endpoints, applications, the network, and the users from different internal and external threats. Besides this, such kind of testing offers protection to different kinds of security controls. Other than this, it assures authorized access at the same time. This kind of testing recognizes the simulation environment. So, this kind of tester is useful in finding the way in which the intruder will attack the system with th...