Offensive Security Evangelist, formerly at CyCognito, Phillip Wylie is a cybersecurity professional and offensive security SME with over 18 years of experience, over half of his career in offensive security. He is a former college adjunct instructor and published author. He is the concept creator and co-author of The Pentester Blueprint: Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker and was featured in the Tribe of Hackers: Red Team.
While some organizations may be fine with an ASM solution that automatically bundles in pen testing, for more companies I think CyCognito, supplemented with a dedicated pen testing team, is a better solution.
Over the years, pen tests have increasingly become a mandated component of regulatory and compliance standards. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requiring pentests be performed in card data environments (CDEs) grew this need for compliance-based pen testing.
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