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Attack Surface vs Attack Vector: Understanding the Difference

Penetration testing, or pentesting, simulates an attack on a system to evaluate its defenses. Vulnerability testing identifies and evaluates system security weaknesses.

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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 →

Application Security Testing (AST): Technologies and Best Practices

Application security testing involves analyzing and evaluating software applications to identify vulnerabilities. read more →

How to Conduct a Security Risk Assessment in 6 Steps

Security risk assessment is a systematic process to evaluate potential threats and vulnerabilities affecting an organization’s critical resources. 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 →

External Attack Surface Management: 5 Key Capabilities

External attack surface management (EASM) focuses on managing and securing an organization's digital assets exposed to external threats. read more →

7 Types of Web Application Testing and Building a Testing Strategy

Web application testing involves evaluating an application to ensure its functionality, security, and usability meet the required standards before deployment. read more →

Network penetration testing: what is it and why do you need it?

How your business will benefit from network penetration testing and why it’s important to conduct annual testing. read more →

How to Prepare for Penetration Testing

Preparing for a penetration test? This checklist will inform you on what to expect and what steps you should take to get the most out of your organization’s upcoming pentest. read more →

How To Securely Share Your Backups and Passwords Upon your Death

A tutorial on how to build a secure, distributed, and multiple authorization backup method to recovery your digital life. read more →

How to limit cleartext password storage and fix the issue in your organization

The key to our engagements often and unfortunately involve the discovery of credentials on internal network file shares. We’re going to show you how we find cleartext password storage problems and how to address them. read more →

Fourteen good reasons to require 14-character passwords

Password. Password123. Yea, you’ve seen them all when it comes to bad passwords. It comes standard when managing IT security. But while your organization likely requires special characters, uppercase letters and even a… read more →

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