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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?
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?
According to the 2023 Pen Testing Report, 94% of cybersecurity professionals surveyed felt that penetration testing was somewhat important or important to their organization’s security posture, with 93% also reporting that penetration testing was at least somewhat important to their compliance initiatives.
“Organizations tend to spend a lot of time looking at vulnerabilities on their assets but they fail to consider the all-important human factor. We’re running quarterly phishing exercises to educate our employees and enhance their overall awareness to threats, and we’ve been able to measure significant improvements over time based on these programs.”
“In order to accurately test the effectiveness of our security products, we run everything through Core Impact. Thanks to Impact, we can now trust the security technologies we invest in.”
“When it comes to client-side penetration testing, Core Security demonstrates progressive vision by providing a huge number of exploits for common client software and a rich post-exploitation framework. Anyone who pays any attention to malware attack trends knows that client-side vulnerabilities are frequently used by cyber-criminals to install malicious crime-ware such as the Zeus/Zbot, Torpig, Clampi threats and many others.”