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Penetration Testing



What is Penetration Testing?

Penetration testing a black box testing technique in which an authorized attempt is made to violate specific constraints stated in the form of a security or integrity policy of the system, application, network or database. It is a testing technique for discovering and documenting all the security holes that can be found in a system.

Security testing can never prove the absence of security flaws but it can prove their presence.

Penetration Testing Stages:

  • Scope/Goal Definition

  • Information Gathering

  • Vulnerability Detection

  • Information Analysis and Planning.

  • Attack & Penetration/Privilege Escalation.

  • Result Analysis & Reporting.

  • Cleanup.

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