With cybersecurity attacks perpetually on the rise, security teams are under more pressure than ever. While pen testing can help these teams by finding vulnerabilities before adversaries can, even pen testing comes with its challenges. A skills shortage, new and expanding regulations requiring testing, and other critical daily security duties increasingly leave cybersecurity professionals stretched thin.
Managing security vulnerabilities is no easy task: identifying, classifying, remediating, and mitigating weaknesses in the IT infrastructure is a continuous process that has only grown more challenging with an increasing number of attacks. Most organizations have the fundamentals in place: running regular vulnerability scans, establishing basic prioritization methods, having a patching process, and maybe even having some metrics.
Though cybersecurity defenses are increasingly sophisticated, threat actors have also become more creative in order to achieve their end goals. They continue to find new ways to use the technologies most integral to businesses – mobile devices, computers, servers, websites, wifi, and email – as entry points to breach networks for malicious purposes. What more can be done to reduce the risk of attack?
As we continue to adapt in these unprecedented times, many workplaces have remained fully remote. In fact, some organizations have seen enough benefits from remote work that they are planning a permanent shift away from a traditional office environment, instead having their workforce either partially or fully remote. Whether temporary or permanent, remote work has been a large adjustment for everyone, though perhaps even more so for each organization’s security teams.
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According to the 2023 Pen Testing Report, 93% of cybersecurity professionals reported pen testing was at least somewhat important for their compliance initiatives. Why is pen testing as a key component of compliance initiatives, and what is the best strategy for meeting this requirement?