The Importance of Penetration Testing
Penetration testing is essential to a networks security. Cyber attacks are an inevitability and an untested network could provide many cracks through which an attacker could slip. By testing a network with the same methods by which a cyber criminal would attack, security flaws can be exposed and repaired before a business network is compromised. Methods of attack prevention such as spam filters, firewalls, user rights limitations, and DMZ can only do so much to stop a network