Hack I.T.: Security Through Penetration Testing

Chapter 23. Future Trends

This chapter is dedicated to discussing what we see as potential future trends in the security industry. While none of us claim to have accurate crystal balls, we would like to share with you our thoughts as to what direction this industry may follow. These trends will influence future penetration-testing tools and techniques.

Authentication

In today's world, one of the most common network or host vulnerabilities continues to be weak passwords. Passwords are the core of the authentication mechanisms generally in use today. The real issue here is that passwords as a means of performing user authentication are generally insecure. This is not likely to change soon because the modern-day character string password method simply ...