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GUEST ESSAY: How and why ‘pen testing’ will continue to play a key role in cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

Related: Integrating ‘pen tests’ into firewalls. Penetration tests are one way of mitigating the security risks that arise and make sure that we are not endangering users, their data, and the trust they inherently place in technology. Penetration tests can be defined as the testing of a system to find security flaws in it.

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Gray Box Testing Guide

Security Boulevard

The most common approaches to testing software are white box testing, black box testing, and gray box testing. While white box testing and black box testing have their pros and cons, gray box testing combines the two testing approaches in an attempt to overcome their deficits.

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Introduction to SAST

CyberSecurity Insiders

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. In this article, I would like to talk about Static Application Security Testing (SAST). Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) — dynamic analysis of an application without access to the source code and execution environment (using the black box method).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

By that I mean the jumping over barbed wire fences, the crawling through ventilation ducts, the putting on of makeup to look like that woman from headquarters most people only see from emails -- you know, the John McClane in DIE HARD aspects of pen testing. There’s sometimes a very thin line between pen testing and criminal hacking.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

By that I mean the jumping over barbed wire fences, the crawling through ventilation ducts, the putting on of makeup to look like that woman from headquarters most people only see from emails -- you know, the John McClane in DIE HARD aspects of pen testing. There’s sometimes a very thin line between pen testing and criminal hacking.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: How To Get Paid To Hack

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: I’m going to start off a bit differently as I am considering different formats for this show. And and then after that I invested almost all my waking hours into learning web application pen testing, because coming from the infrastructure side, I never really poked at web apps. How can I do this?

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Common Terminology in Adversarial Machine Learning

NetSpi Executives

Artificial Intelligence (AI) versus Machine Learning (ML) Before we dive in, let’s level set on the differences between AI and ML, or perhaps the lack thereof. While they are closely related areas, they do have nuanced differences.