Penetration Testing Concepts
A penetration test is an intrusive test where a third party has been authorized to attack a company's network to identify weaknesses. The intrusive tests used by them can cause damage to your systems.
Penetration testing is commonly known as pen-testing. Pen testers are given different amounts of information, including the following:
- Black Box: Black box pen testers work in an unknown environment and are given no information on the company. They will carry out initial exploitation looking for vulnerabilities.
- Gray Box: Gray box pen testers work in a partially known environment as they are given limited internal information.
- White Box: White box pen testers work in a known environment. One of the purposes of a white box pen tester is to test applications in a sandbox so that when they are released, they do not have any vulnerabilities. They know everything about a system or application as they have access to an application&apos...
