Penetration testing

Red Team Operations: Reporting for compliance

The growing compliance landscape In recent years, the number of standards and regulations that organizations have to demonstrate compliance with has exploded

Red Team Operations: Report structure and content

What to report The first stage in building a Red Team report is knowing what to put in the report. Three of the most important things to discuss in the repor

Red Team Operations: Presenting your findings

The importance of the Red Team presentation At the end of the Red Team assessment, there are usually two main deliverables. The Red Team report provides a re

Best commercial tools for Red Teaming

Introduction A variety of different free tools exist for Red Team operations, and, in many cases, a Red Team can get by just fine taking advantage of these f

Best open-source tools for Red Teaming

Best open-source Red Team tools One of the best features of the cybersecurity community is the vast number of free and open-source tools that are available.

Red Team operations: Best practices

Introduction The goal of a Red Team assessment is for the Red Team to find as many vulnerabilities as possible within the customer’s current security setup.

Penetration testing: TOR, VPN or proxy

If you’re reading this article, chances are good that you already know what penetration testing is. Let's take things a step further and look at the specific

The types of penetration testing [updated 2019]

In today's corporate environment, there is no doubt that security is now one of the main issues being addressed. Every day, you hear about Cyber hackers atta

A brief introduction to the Nessus vulnerability scanner

Nessus is one of the many vulnerability scanners used during vulnerability assessments and penetration testing engagements, including malicious attacks. This

Pentesting as part of an organizational security program

Introduction Robust IT security programs are a must for any organizations that rely more and more on information system infrastructures to manage data, activ