From the course: CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Cert Prep
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Pen testing
From the course: CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Cert Prep
Pen testing
(ethereal music) - So we've talked about vulnerability scanning and checking for different vulnerabilities on our network. Now let's talk about ways that we can actively have those vulnerabilities exploited. This is going to come in the form of penetration testing or pen testing for short. And so with pen testing, what we're looking at is hiring a group of experienced good guy hackers and they are going to carry out a penetration test against us. They are going to try to carry out exploits against the vulnerabilities they have found and discovered present on our network. They're going to exploit those vulnerabilities, carrying them through, and then exploiting any other vulnerabilities they find in order to let us know all of the information that is up for grabs should someone try to exploit these different vulnerabilities. Clearly they're going to be exposing a lot of information to us, so we're going to have a lot of agreements in place with them that they're going to sign, NDAs…
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