What is the penetration testing tool and importance

What is the penetration testing tool & importance?

Penetration testing is the process of validating and scanning your web applications for finding threats in the application. In other words for answering a simple question:

"What could a hacker do to harm my web application, or organisation’s online applications, out in the real world?"


Penetration Test:

   Most Effective Penetration test will have a team of high skilled hackers. Organization purposefully hire those skilled hackers without giving them a source code or anything ask them to gain the access of your system/application. Penetration tests can be carried out on IP address ranges, individual applications, or even as little information as an organization name.


Why Penetration test is so important:

Hackers can give a real security personnel experience in dealing with an intrusion. A penetration test should be done without informing other developers in your organization, and will allow an organisation to enrich the web security of your organization is truly effective or not.

It can help us to know where the organization is lacking in a security, to find a new key holes.

They provide feedback on the most at risk routes into your company or application. Penetration testers they think outside of the box, and will try to get into your application by any means possible, like a real world hackers would. This could help us to identify all small loop holes in your system security. The reports generated by penetration tests provide you with feedback on prioritising any future security investment.

A penetration test is one of the best method to identify threats in the system and it can be imagined much like a fire drill.

Penetration testing generated reports can be used to help train developers to make our future system security much stronger. If developers can see how an outside attacker broke into an application or part of an application they helped develop, they will be more motivated to improve their security education and avoid making similar errors in the future.



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