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In an era defined by rapid digital transformation, cyber threats are growing increasingly sophisticated, exposing organizations of all sizes across every industry to significant security risks. For ...

In today’s highly advanced digital world, cybersecurity is of the utmost importance. So much of any given business’s most valuable information is housed online. While this has brought about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I offer insight on cyber security issues for businesses and consumers. This article is more than 10 years old. For the second post ...

Penetration testing is undergoing a structural shift. For years, automation meant running scanners faster or scripting repetitive tasks. Today, a new class of tools is emerging, agentic AI systems ...

Penetration testing is an important way for businesses, especially startups and mobile app companies, to find weaknesses in their systems before hackers do. It involves hiring experts, known as ...

When evaluating cybersecurity and data protection risk for our clients, the two most fundamental questions that need to be answered are: How vulnerable is our organization to active cyber threats that ...

Third installment in a series on spotting a novice pen tester Reviewing the results of a penetration test and discussing methodology is another way to assess the skill level of your pen tester (and ...

I am a penetration tester — a.k.a. hacker, white-hat hacker, whatever you want to call it. A good-guy hacker, quote, unquote. A bad guy would be a black hat. They adopted those terms from Western ...

Security expert Wesley McGrew and his penetration testing team once found a Meterpreter shell inadvertently left behind by a previous pen tester on their client’s network. “That was one of our first ...