Why Security Penetration Test is required?

With the advent of sophisticated, automated exploitation tools, anyone with a network connection is potentially vulnerable. Although there are many ways to secure systems and applications, the only way to truly know how secure you are is to test yourself.

Penetration testing, occasionally pentest is the process of attempting to gain access to resources without knowledge of user-names, passwords and other normal means of access. The goal is to ensure that the software performs reliably and securely under reasonable and even unreasonable production scenarios.

The process involves an active analysis of the system for any potential vulnerabilities that could result from poor or improper system configuration, both known and unknown hardware or software flaws, or operational weaknesses in process or technical countermeasures. This analysis is performed from the position of a potential attacker and can involve active exploitation of security vulnerabilities. A successful penetration may resulted in obtaining or subverting confidential documents, pricelists, databases and other protected information.
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