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    impact of penetration testing on the society/organization/customers

    Source: https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/...ration-testing

    Cyber-attacks are cheap to conduct, but expensive for organizations that are hit by them. Botnets can be hired cheaply, hacking software is readily available, and even those without technical or practical knowledge can purchase attacks as a service.
    Attacks can cripple a company’s systems, they can lead to large fines and reputational damage, and the low investment necessary to conduct an attack means that no business is too small to be targeted.
    That is where penetration testing (‘pen testing’) comes in. It is essentially a controlled form of hacking in which a professional pen tester, working on behalf of an organisation, uses the same techniques as a criminal hacker to search for vulnerabilities in the company’s networks or applications.
    Penetration testing is widely acknowledged as an important part of cyber security (it is, for instance, a requisite part of a number of regulatory standards and compliance schemes), but, like any security mechanism, it is not perfect.
    Pros
    • They can identify a range of vulnerabilities.
    Businesses are exposed to a host of potential threats, and each might be able to exploit hundreds of different vulnerabilities.
    Such vulnerabilities are open to potentially devastating attacks, such as SQL injection, and things as apparently benign as error pages can provide attackers with enough information to exploit a less obvious and much more harmful vulnerability.
    • They can identify high-risk weaknesses that result from a combination of smaller vulnerabilities.
    Taken on their own, small vulnerabilities may appear negligible, but hackers often seek out these weaknesses to create intrusion sequences that take small, steady efforts to pry open security gaps into much larger weakness.
    These gaps are often overlooked by the company or automated security systems, but given that pen testers replicate a hacker’s methods, they will be able to identify such points of entry.
    • Reports will provide specific advice
    The final step of a penetration test is reporting the vulnerabilities. Unlike automatically generated reports from tools that offer generic remediation tips, reports from penetration tests can rank and rate vulnerabilities according to the scale of the risk and the company’s budget.

    Cons
    • If they’re not done right, they can create a lot of damage.
    Tests that are not done properly can crash servers, expose sensitive data, corrupt crucial production data, or cause a host of other adverse effects associated with mimicking a criminal hack.
    • You are required to trust the penetration tester.
    Penetration testing essentially means that you’re inviting someone to hack into your systems, so you’re relying on the tester not to abuse their skills and knowledge.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raed_2016 View Post
    Hello, I'm really interested in the computer field and have tried doing things like kali linux and hacking into bandit but i never got too far because i lacked the effort and knowledge about penetrations tester[/COLOR]. I am now looking to get into a pen testing field as in my country there is currently a large need for computing experts and I've met with some of them and to be honest, i can out perform some of them and i have no clue what I'm doing. I'm currently working in a pc repair store so i have plenty of opportunities to test out my new skills instead of leaving it to the boss when things get too difficult. So if anyone could help me get started or teach me that would be awesome! All help is greatly appreciated, thank you

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexadaniels View Post
    Hello, I'm really interested in the computer field and have tried doing things like kali linux and hacking into bandit but i never got too far because i lacked the effort and knowledge about penetrations tester[/COLOR]. I am now looking to get into a pen testing field as in my country there is currently a large need for computing experts and I've met with some of them and to be honest NBA Finals Highlights Online 2023, i can out perform some of them and i have no clue what I'm doing. I'm currently working in a pc repair store so i have plenty of opportunities to test out my new skills instead of leaving it to the boss when things get too difficult. So if anyone could help me get started or teach me that would be awesome! All help is greatly appreciated, thank you
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    You are hundred percent right about these hacking method and their pros and cons are really memorizing but you should also mention some of the bad punishments of acting on these methods and how we can save from them by keeping our self white hat hacker which could not only help others like organizations but would also be great for ourself, For example there are many cryptocurrency white hackers are present in the field to help you to grow your crypto project and prevent it from hacker, and from phishing websites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexadaniels View Post
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