Automated penetration testing

Penetration tests are probably the most common and recognized cybersecurity consulting services. Nearly every business above a certain size has had at least one pentest by an external firm. Here's the thing, though - the average ransomware attack looks an awful lot like the bog standard pentest we've all been purchasing or delivering for years. Ye...

SecurityWeek reports that Rockwell Automation has issued fixes for a trio of critical flaws impacting Allen-Bradley PowerMonitor 1000 instances, which could be leveraged to infiltrate and disrupt industrial systems.

Our latest in a series of interviews discussing cybersecurity career paths, today we talk to Jayson Grace his path into cybersecurity and his experience building red teams at national labs and purple teams at Meta. We also talk about his community impact, giving talks and building open source tools. Jayson just left Meta for an AI safety startup na...

Here are three ways security teams can automate security tests to better combat cyber threats.

This may be controversial, however, we've been privately discussing how organizations benefit from penetration testing and vulnerability scanning. Do you still need these services as a critical part of your security program? Can't you just patch stuff that is missing patches? Tune in for a lively debate!

The Security Weekly crew and special guest Seemant Sehgal explore what PTaaS involves, how it differs from traditional penetration testing, and why it's becoming a crucial service for companies of all sizes to protect their digital assets. We'll discuss the how PTaaS is using the latest technologies (e.g machine learning), the benefits of having a ...

Despite building up impressive security stacks in the Cloud, organizations are still struggling to keep their environments safe. Pentera recently introduced Pentera Cloud as the first tool to provide automated pentesting capabilities for cloud environments. This conversation will focus on the challenge of security validation and pentesting in the c...