Application and Effectiveness of Pen-testing

[Drew Masters <drewmasters () gmail com>]

I'm currently completing an MSc in Information Security with my
dissertation covering the application and effectiveness of
pen-testing.

Is anyone willing to give their views on the effectiveness of
different methods in different situations?

More importantly if anyone is able to give real world examples of
different approaches to pen-testing and their effectiveness It'd be
much appreciated.


Cheers

Drew

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