The Evolution and Advancement of Penetration Testing Under Covid-19
Originally published on Information Age.
Excerpt:
Ensuring adequate protection against the wave of new security threats facing every size and shape of business became paramount, and challenged CISOs to balance reduced budgets and staff against the requirement for increased technology investment. Within this, penetration testing has played a vital role in ensuring organizational security throughout the pandemic, providing value not only in testing and measuring security posture, but also in identifying and prioritizing high-risk security vulnerabilities and ensuring compliance. But have CISOs focused sufficient resources on penetration testing, and have such investments worked to deliver the clear vision for overall cyber security strategy that penetration testing promises?