Penetration Testing

FOREWORD

In the last few years, we have experienced cyber-crime on a scale never seen before and an unprecedented increase in threat actors. It has been a wake-up call for all businesses and organisations to take cyber security seriously and discover where their weaknesses lie and how to fix them before someone else finds and exploits them. The best way to do this is to simulate malicious attacks – the art of penetration testing. While penetration testing has traditionally been associated with government organisations and large financial institutions and corporations, it is now commonplace among medium sized companies, NGOs and the wider public and private sector.

That’s why this book is so important. Penetration testing is extremely sensitive, ...