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_16

16. Infinite Cost Benefit

Michael Butler¹   and Jacob G. Oakley²

(1)

Falls Church, VA, USA

(2)

Owens Cross Roads, AL, USA

 

Doing well in business involves many things going well, but two core principles that drive profitability and/or return on investment are optimizing cost benefit and understanding the type of game you are in and playing accordingly. The offensive security solutions created by hackers specifically, and the cybersecurity industry as a whole, are no different. Interestingly, in cybersecurity, cost benefit is more a trifecta than a coupling of producer and ...