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The Risks And Rewards Of Penetration Testing

techradar.pro, Monday, November 18th, 2024

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"We have a problem here..." said the voice on the phone. Our customer hired us to test their computer systems for vulnerabilities.and we had just found a big one.

Our testing had uncovered a serious bug in the customer's firewall. This bug crashed the network, knocking the whole company offline. The bug was similar to the recent CrowdStrike flaw, but on a vastly smaller scale.

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