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Cybersecurity automation has increased dramatically in the past few years, but penetration testing has remained stubbornly immune. While crowdsourced security evolved as an alternative to pen testing ...

HACKBOX.AI is built on a multi-agent collaborative architecture, designed to simulate attackers’ tactics and pathways. The system automates the entire testing lifecycle—from information gathering to ...

Traditional penetration testing has long been a cornerstone of cyber assurance. For many organisations, structured annual or biannual tests have provided an effective way to validate security controls ...

Cyberattacks have become commonplace over the last few years. No industry is immune to attacks, which have only increased in frequency and intensity as hackers and bad actors have become more ...

Besides the fact that there is no other way to really test your network, The PCI Security Standards Council finally released version 3. 2 and it now states, “To ensure resilience, service providers ...

Crowdsourced bug bounties and pen-testing firms see AI agents stealing low-hanging vulns from their human counterparts, but oversight remains key.

Penetration Testing is among the most intimate cybersecurity audits that an organization can undertake. Defined by Digital Forensics as "an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, ...

While traditional penetration testing (pen testing) has long been the go-to method for identifying security gaps in a organization’s network and web application, a new approach has emerged: ...

A test of a network's vulnerabilities by having an authorized individual actually attempt to break into the network. The "pen tester" may undertake several methods, workarounds and hacks to gain entry ...

Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting ...