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Items Tagged with 'penetration testing'

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Defend like an attacker: 4 required approaches

Ran shahor
Ran Shahor
October 19, 2020
There’s a significant movement in cybersecurity right now that is seeing organizations approach the problem of cyber defense through the eyes of an attacker. T
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An attacker’s perspective on choosing a red-team or pen-test engagement

David moose wolpoff
David Wolpoff
June 25, 2020

Sitting on the frontlines as a red-teamer, people regularly ask me, “Should I do a pentest or hire a red team?”  But that’s not the question they should be asking. 


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Stanford Students Win International Cybersecurity Competition

January 13, 2020

A team of Stanford students took the top prize at a recent international cybersecurity hacking competition.


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Stanford University Wins Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition

November 25, 2019
Students at Stanford University won the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition, which took place Nov. 22–24 at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Explained: Firewalls, Vulnerability Scans and Penetration Tests

Christopher gerg
Christopher Gerg
November 12, 2019

The implementation of a secured perimeter and internal firewall network architecture and conducting Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Tests (VAPT) are often seen as enough to protect critical business information and guard against unexpected cybersecurity threats. However, as we will discover and despite this approach being a good start, there is substantially more to information security than firewalls and VAPT.


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SANS to Host Cybersecurity Training Event in Northern Virginia

July 24, 2019

SANS Institute announced SANS Northern VA Fall – Reston 2019, taking place September 30 - October 5.


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Social Engineering Simulation Testing Tips

Joemalec
Joe Malec
May 8, 2019
Do you know who is calling you? In many cases, employees rely on caller ID or a familiar name to allow callers to build trust and potentially exploit them. Vishing (or social engineering) is a practice where verbal communication is used to deceive a potential victim.
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CompTIA and Immersive Labs Issue Penetration Testing Challenge

March 4, 2019

CompTIA and Immersive Labs are challenging cybersecurity professionals in the United States and United Kingdom to test their penetration testing skills this month.


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80 Percent of U.S. Adults Have Never Considered a Career in Cybersecurity

September 1, 2018

Don’t know what a penetration tester is? You’re not alone; more than 50 percent of U.S. adults surveyed by the University of Phoenix have never heard of pen testers or “White Hat” ethical hackers, among other cybersecurity job titles, and only about one in 10 survey respondents is “very familiar” with the 11 jobs in the industry queried in the survey.


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Penetration Testing by Letter of the Law

Uladzislau Murashka
November 14, 2017

Legal issues may throw sand in the wheels of penetration testing machine. Luckily, all of them are solvable.


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