Penetration Testing
Penetration testing is an information security test in which an attacker attempts to gain unauthorized access to a system or network. The tester's goal may be any number of things: gathering intelligence, stealing data, disrupting operations, etc. Penetration testers are often hired by businesses to identify weaknesses that malicious actors might exploit so they can fix those vulnerabilities.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Penetration Testing
Businesses should consider hiring penetration testers if they want more insight into their cybersecurity posture and potential areas for improvement. Information gathered from these tests could also help in the event of a data breach.
Related terms
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Intranet
- SLO (Service-Level Objective)
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Scalability
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Data Center
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Synchronous
- Multitenancy
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- IT Services
- Authorization
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
