Vulnerability Assessment: Process, Types, Tools, and What It Costs
A vulnerability assessment is a systematic review of your systems, networks, and applications to identify security weaknesses, rank them by risk, and produce a prioritized list of what to fix. It’s mostly automated: scanning tools compare what’s running in your environment against vulnerability databases of known flaws, misconfigurations, and missing patches. Where a penetration test […]
Penetration Testing: What It Is, the Types, and What It Costs
Penetration testing (a pen test) is an authorized, simulated cyberattack against your systems, performed by security experts who use the same tools and techniques as real attackers to find security flaws that could actually be exploited. Where a vulnerability scan tells you a door might be unlocked, a pen test walks through it, sees what’s […]