What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing, more colloquially known as PenTesting, is the systematic and scientific process of identifying vulnerabilities in electronic systems, such as computer or telephony networks, and the reporting thereof. The allied process of Ethical Hacking seeks to take NetPen a stage further through actual compromise of these systems, under controlled circumstances, to prove the vulnerability beyond any doubt. PenTesting can be done from a ‘zero knowledge’ position, known as Red Team PenTesting, or with knowledge of the network structure, known as Blue Team PenTesting.
