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Why Penetration Test?
From: tarunthenut () gmail com
Date: 2 Jun 2005 06:29:34 -0000
I was wondering the usefulness of a penetration testing against vulnerability assessment for a company. Scenario A Cosultant "A is employed to perform a vulnerability assessment and the result is tabulated based on the business risk these vulnerabilities pose. Scenario B Cosultant "B is employed to perform a Penetration Test, discovers 10 vulnerabilities and is able to show exploit of 5 vulnerabilities. Scenario C Cosultant "C" is employed to perform a Penetration Test, discovers 10 vulnerabilities and is able to show exploit of 7 vulnerabilities. Which scenario would have more usefulness to the company? it is ovbious that the result of a PT would depend and vary from skill of a consultant to another?
Current thread:
- Why Penetration Test? tarunthenut (Jun 10)
- Re: Why Penetration Test? Terry Vernon (Jun 10)
- RE: Why Penetration Test? Erin Carroll (Jun 10)
- Re: Why Penetration Test? Brahman Thiyagalingham (Jun 10)
- Re: Why Penetration Test? cbc (Jun 10)
- Re: Why Penetration Test? Daniel Reynaud-Plantey (Jun 11)
- Re: Why Penetration Test? Amit (Jun 12)
- Re: Why Penetration Test? cbc (Jun 10)
- Re: Why Penetration Test? Rob Havelt (Jun 11)
- Re: Why Penetration Test? Petr . Kazil (Jun 11)
- Re: Why Penetration Test? Matt Curtin (Jun 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Why Penetration Test? DUBRAWSKY, IDO (CALLISMA) (Jun 10)
(Thread continues...)