Penetration testing enables ethical hackers and red teams to test an organization's security controls, expose gaps in defenses and identify exploitable vulnerabilities in networks, applications and ...

Companies should periodically conduct physical penetration tests to assess the security posture of their office and data center and find any vulnerabilities. Physical security testing, while not as ...

Ten autonomous pentesting platforms compared on proof-of-exploit, attack-chain depth, and coverage. Astra Security leads for web and API exploitation with a walled-off validator that re-exploits every ...

Melissa Delaney is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Maybe it’s that mail server that IT forgot to ...

When automated pen-testing tools appeared a few years ago they prompted an interesting question: How close are they to replacing human pen testers? While the short answer was "not that close — yet," ...

Effective penetration test scoping requires addressing four key areas to ensure that the assessment focuses on the most critical vulnerabilities.​ ...

Penetration testing is an important tool in a company's cybersecurity arsenal, and in some cases it is even required by regulators. However, to ensure the full benefit of pen testing, while avoiding ...

SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE, January 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — HACKBOX.AI, the flagship product of cybersecurity firm HACKBOX PTE.LTD, has achieved the top position in ...

Villager, a new penetration-testing tool linked to a suspicious China-based company and described by researchers as "Cobalt Strike's AI successor," has been downloaded about 10,000 times since its ...

A researcher is working on a solution for penetration testers that's a first step toward ultimately integrating and correlating data among different types of penetration-testing products. Josh Abraham ...

How big an issue is the weaponization of pen-testing tools and how can it be mitigated? Davey Winder explores. Cobalt Strike is a penetration-testing tool used by red teams, providing adversary ...

In the past few years, automation in many spheres of cybersecurity has increased dramatically, but pen testing has remained stubbornly immune to this. While crowdsourced security has evolved as an ...