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Essential Cybersecurity Terms Every Organization Should Know
If you’re not in the cybersecurity trenches daily, it can be tough to get a clear understanding of many popular terms used by the professionals testing your organization’s network.
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If, Not When: Continuous Penetration Testing for Finance and Insurance
A vulnerability assessment identifies and evaluates potential security weaknesses in an organization's systems. read more →
Why Organizations Are Raising Their Testing Budgets for 2025
We surveyed 200 ethical hackers in our 2024 Voice of an In-House Pentester report. Here's how the state of cybersecurity is impacting organizations' budgets for security going into 2025. read more →
Attack Surface Monitoring: Core Functions, Challenges and Best Practices
Attack surface monitoring systematically examines and evaluates potential entry points for cyber threats in a system or network. read more →
Penetration Testing as a Service: Pros/Cons and Choosing a Provider
PTaaS offers continuous, cloud-based security through simulated cyberattacks, helping organizations identify vulnerabilities in real-time. read more →
Ahead of the Breach - Kieran Smith, Lead Pentest Engineer, N-able
Join Keiran Smith, Lead Pentest Engineer at N-able, as he shares his journey from teenage hacker to security leader, discussing the intersection of development and security testing, and providing insights for aspiring… read more →
5 Penetration Testing Standards to Know in 2025
Penetration testing standards are structured guidelines that define best practices, methodologies, and procedures for executing security assessments. read more →
Adversary Simulation in Cybersecurity: Process and Techniques
Adversary simulation is a cybersecurity technique that replicates potential cyber threats by simulating the TTPs used by attackers. read more →
Penetration Testing vs Vulnerability Testing: 6 Key Differences
Penetration testing, or pentesting, simulates an attack on a system to evaluate its defenses. Vulnerability testing identifies and evaluates system security weaknesses. read more →
Pentest Reports: Traditional Reporting vs. Continuous Pentesting
Vulnerability scanning as a service is a solution that uses cloud-based tools to identify vulnerabilities in an organization's digital infrastructure. read more →
Top 8 Penetration Testing Types, Techniques, and Best Practices
Penetration testing is a simulated cyber-attack against a computer system, network, or application to evaluate its security posture. read more →
Automated Penetration Testing: Process, Pros/Cons and Best Practices
Automated penetration testing uses specialized software to quickly identify vulnerabilities across networks and applications without manual intervention. Read on to learn about the pros and cons of this pentesting… read more →
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