Pentest Challenges
Carrying out a pentest? This comes with many challenges, both before and after the pentest is carried out. Read more about pentesting here!
Carrying out a pentest is one thing, but then assessing, prioritizing and fixing vulnerabilities are the steps that follow. Many IT specialists can find this challenging, and it can require an enormous amount of work. It can also be difficult to understand everything that happens during a pentest, let alone explain it to non-technical colleagues... Below are the biggest challenges for an organization having a pentest carried out (and the support Tozetta offers your organization!).
Prioritizing Vulnerabilities After a Pentest
A penetration test at Tozetta can bring a large number of vulnerabilities to light. As the person responsible for cyber security, a significant challenge awaits you: which vulnerabilities do you tackle first?! Tozetta's ethical hackers know better than anyone which vulnerabilities need to be addressed first. In the final pentest report, we make clear which vulnerabilities take priority. In addition, the pentest report is discussed afterward, and you can ask any questions you have.
The Importance of Fixing Vulnerabilities
Someone ultimately responsible for IT and/or cyber security may find it difficult to communicate the results of a penetration test within the organization — especially if it needs to be explained to non-technical colleagues (a manager, CEO, etc.). Tozetta's ethical hackers have experience as speakers in the field of cyber security awareness and giving various courses (OSINT, phishing, crypto). They can explain, better than anyone, the importance of cyber security and fixing the vulnerabilities from the pentest carried out by Tozetta.
For example, we like to see stakeholders invited into the run-up and follow-up process.
Budget for a Pentest
Almost every professional has to deal with a budget, and cyber security/IT specialists are no exception. Still, we have the sense that too little is invested in cyber security. We're not here to convince you, but we can imagine you might find it hard to secure budget. If you're convinced of the value of a pentest, we're happy to support you with this. Get in touch with us, and during the conversation, we'll try to give you tips.
Cybercriminals Keep Evolving
Keeping up with the constantly changing threat landscape is an enormous challenge in the field of cyber security. Cybercriminals keep evolving, and threats keep coming from more and more different angles. Naturally, Tozetta's ethical hackers keep developing too. Periodic pentesting can offer a solution... even though we've just talked extensively about budget?
Besides hackers developing themselves and searching for new vulnerabilities, your systems and networks also keep changing. Periodic testing can offer a solution to structurally keep track of vulnerabilities. If pentesting needs to happen on a periodic basis, we can always work something out on pricing.
An Unclear Process?
What happens during a pentest? What steps do we need to know and go through beforehand before a pentest can be carried out? These are questions we hear a lot... That's why we've created our own pentest page, where we tell you more about the pentest options at Tozetta and what the process looks like!
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