DevOps Articles

What is Penetration Testing (Pen Testing)?

Penetration testing (also known as pen testing) is the process of checking if your infrastructure and applications are robust enough to protect against cyberattacks. Pen testing allows you to uncover a range of weaknesses that a criminal could exploit, such as poorly configured systems, potential flaws in pen testing software and hardware, and social engineering exploits.

Physical Penetration Testing - While most other forms of pen testing are mostly digital, these tests take place in the real world.

Application Penetration Testing - The most broad type of testing, these seek to find vulnerabilities across any applications your company may have.

Some notable examples of penetration testing software includes: Network Sniffers collect network traffic data, which can allow a pen tester to look for sensitive data and applications over a network.