The Business of Hacking: Creating, Developing, and Maintaining an Effective Penetration Testing Team

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M. Butler, J. G. OakleyThe Business of Hackinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0174-7_11

11. Effective Network Testing

Michael Butler¹   and Jacob G. Oakley²

(1)

Falls Church, VA, USA

(2)

Owens Cross Roads, AL, USA

 

Network penetration testing has existed in some form since the 1990s. It is the classic form of offensive cybersecurity, and it is the area that most professional penetration testers are first introduced to through their education. For most penetration testers, network testing is their favorite testing domain for a few reasons. First, it is the most diverse form of pentesting. With web application testing, the tester evaluates an environment, which ...