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TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has developed the world's first penetration-test support tool, CATSploit, which automatically generates ...

Seventy-two percent of organizations said external penetration testing helped prevent a breach, according to a recent survey.

Definition: Penetration testing is a process in which a security professional simulates an attack on a network or computer system to evaluate its security—with the permission of that system’s owners.

Penetration testing, often referred to as “pen testing,” is a simulated cyber attack against an organization’s IT infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers. This ...

Social engineering techniques are often crucial to executing penetration tests. But which methods cross the ethical line - or even venture into the dangerous territory of illegal? Social engineering ...

Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing and evolving field with a wide range of subfields and specializations. One of these is penetration testing, a discipline within what's known as "red teaming," which ...

Penetration Testing is among the most intimate cybersecurity audits that an organization can undertake. Defined by Digital Forensics as "an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, ...