What’s the point of establishing a baseline if you don’t intend to track your progress? When organizations only run an initial pen test, they are only getting half the picture.

A pen test is used to give a business a baseline idea of how well their systems would stack up against hackers who wanted to exploit vulnerabilities. Once the results are delivered, it’s up to the team to implement those changes. And then –

There’s something positive about a healthy degree of fear. It lets us understand our own limitations, heightens our senses, and keeps us alive. The tendency to err on the side of caution was called out in our recent 2023 Penetration Testing Report as a smart practice when it comes to cybersecurity. In fact, though security professionals reported less confidence in their security posture, this loss confidence is a good thing. Overconfidence can blind us to risk and is more of a liability than an asset in cybersecurity.

Advanced red teamers can maximize their engagements with this testing suite that features Core Impact, an automated pen testing solution, Cobalt Strike, a post-exploitation adversary simulation tool, and OST, an expertly curated offensive security toolset highlighting evasive capabilities.  

Red Team engagements simulate malicious activities of a long-term embedded threat actor and serve as a valuable learning experience for the target organization's security team. While it was once seen as a nice addition to a strong security posture, red teaming is now a crucial way to gain real-world experience against dangerous exploits. In this guide, get an overview of red teaming, including:

IT professionals like you know what you’re up against. The dynamics of today’s threat landscape require organizations to do more than just defend against cyber-attacks. While there will always be a need for defensive strategies and solutions, it is now essential for organizations to become more proactive and get ahead of threats to their critical assets.