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Why is penetration testing required and why is it so important?

by Jherome | May 16, 2024 | Knowledge Centre

Penetration testing is required for two main reasons: Everyone makes mistakes! In Microsoft Windows for instance there are over a 50 million lines of code, there are definitely going to be mistakes, and some can be costly. Hackers actively look for those mistakes....

What does vulnerability scanning do?

by Jherome | May 16, 2024 | Knowledge Centre

Vulnerability scanning is the process of scanning software and systems for known vulnerabilities. A vulnerability scanner will maintain and refer to a massive database of known vulnerabilities in order to compare and classify anything it finds. Vulnerability scanners...

How do you perform a vulnerability scan?

by Jherome | May 16, 2024 | Knowledge Centre

How do you perform a vulnerability scan? A vulnerability scan is performed by a piece of software that resides either on a system inside the network, or more often on a cloud service. Modern scanners are very powerful and have a lot of automation built-in, so for a...

Vulnerability scanning

by Jherome | May 16, 2024 | Knowledge Centre

What does vulnerability scanning do? Vulnerability scanning is the process of scanning software and systems for known vulnerabilities. A vulnerability scanner will maintain and refer to a massive database of known vulnerabilities in order to compare and classify...