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Penetration Testing 101
As the world is undergoing a digital revolution, new technological advancements are introducing new cyber threats. With various organizations and government entities scrambling to meet their growing cyber security needs, Penetration Testing continues to remain a high demand career field with ample opportunities and lucrative pay.
Let’s understand the What, Why, and How of this highly technical domain within Cybersecurity.
What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration Testing, popularly known as pen testing is simply the authorized process of detecting and exploiting vulnerabilities in an assigned component of the enterprise IT network along with ensuring low impact on the applicable assets.
This is where cybersecurity professionals get to become hackers and perform cyber-attacks on the assigned target while adhering to a specific scope and any constraints put forth by the enterprise that requests the service.
A common question that comes to most people is that what is the difference between a cybercriminal and a penetration tester?
The following table highlights the same and provides more clarity on this question.
