Penetration Testing: Tips For Successful Test

 

Penetration testing is growing field and most of the companies hire ethical hackers to perform a quick pen test on their network to evaluate the security of the network. If you are expert in penetration testing or if you are a student of this field, in both cases you must follow some rules (tips) to perform a effective penetration testing.
We have discussed so many pen testing tools before so this article will not introduce you to tool but some tips surely.

First of all make sure that the test you are going to do is not conflict with the laws of local government, you must have an idea about cyber laws and crimes that you will surely learn by your experiences and through your academic career.

Penetration Testing vs Vulnerability Assessment

Penetration testing and Vulnerability assessment what actually a difference, it is a complicated topic to be discussed. People are often classified as the same thing when in fact they are not. Penetration Testing does sound a lot more exciting, but in our experience we have found that most clients actually require a comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment or V.A. and not a more intrusive Penetration Test.  

How To Write A Penetration Testing Report

Penetration testing is an act to evaluate the security of a computer and computer network, penetration testing is a legal act so proper documentation is required, as discussed about several tips and steps for the successful penetration testing, this article will discuss about the end phase that report writing, means after penetration testing how you must make a report to submit clients.

This figure shows the effective and the best way of doing penetration testing, top four steps has been discussed on previous article click here to learn.

Writing a report is an art, penetration testing report is just like a simple business report you must consider the objective and goals, how many goals has been achieved the way of achieving the goals, timing and all others relevant information that will give an idea about the test to the reader of the report.