Vulnerability Scanning or Penetration Testing? Choosing the Right Approach

Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing are methods for assessing the security posture of systems and their resiliency against cybersecurity threats. However, the two are quite different. While both of them are excellent practices for revealing weaknesses that could become security hazards, the approaches are different, targeting different areas. Vulnerability scanning is an automated method of […]

What Are The Different Types Of Penetration Testing

Penetration testing or pentesting is a method of testing the security of a system by intentionally exposing it to a situation where a real-life hacker attack is simulated. This “ethical attack” serves the purpose of locating vulnerabilities in a system and finding solutions to secure them before an authentic black hat manages to infiltrate and […]

Vulnerability Assessment vs. Penetration Test

It is quite a common problem to pay for network penetration testing services and getting a hundred pages penetration testing report listing the vulnerabilities detected by a scanning tool. Vulnerability assessments are often offered in place of penetration tests. But what is the difference? Vulnerability Assessment A vulnerability assessment intends to identify certain weaknesses in […]