Cybersecurity Glossary

Ethical Hacking

Ethical hacking is a form of offensive security that involves authorized attempts to break into systems and applications in order to test an organization’s security posture. One example of ethical hacking is penetration testing.

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Scale your Red Teams and Pen Testers

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Learning Center Exposure Management
Automated Pentesting: Pros/Cons, Key Features & 5 Best Practices

Automated penetration testing (APT) uses software tools to simulate cyber attacks on systems, networks, or applications to identify exploitable vulnerabilities.

Learning Center Application Security
7 Steps of Web Application Penetration Testing

Web application penetration testing is a security testing method for finding vulnerabilities in web applications.

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