Michelle Drolet

Michelle Drolet is CEO of Towerwall, a specialized cybersecurity firm offering compliance and professional cybersecurity solution with clients such as Foundation Medicine, Boston College and Middlesex Savings Bank. Reach her at michelled@towerwall.com

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Pentesting vs. threat hunting: What’s the difference?

Michelle Drolet

October 15, 2021

Like many other security processes, penetration testing and threat hunting are often incorrectly equated. However, the difference between the two is that between prevention and detection.

In today's rapidly evolving security landscape, organizations face an ever-growing array of disruptive events, security threats and risks. Traditional reactive approaches to security intelligence often leave businesses vulnerable and ill-prepared to anticipate and mitigate emerging threats that could impact the safety of their people, facilities or operations.

ON DEMAND: Apple Mac computer use is growing in the corporate space. Having the solutions and the knowledge base to respond to events that include Mac computers is just as important as their Windows counterparts.

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Pentesting vs. threat hunting: What’s the difference?

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