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What is Penetration Testing ?
Penetration Testing, also called as PenTesting, is a method of evaluating the security of a computer system or network by simulating an attack from malicious outsiders (who do not have an authorized means of accessing the organization's systems) and malicious insiders (who have some level of authorized access).
Why Penetration Testing?
Pentetration testing can identify the vulnerabilities that is not identified by an automated vulnerability scanners.
Determining the feasibility of a particular set of attack vectors
Determining the Critical Vulerabilities .
Assessing the magnitude of potential business and operational impacts of successful attacks
Testing the ability of network defenders to successfully detect and respond to the attacks
Testing stability of the system against the DDOS attack.
Refer this post for more details:
Introduction to PenTesting
BTS guides ethical hackers and Penetration testers to build their own PenTesting/Ethical Hacking Lab , to develop their skills in a safe environment and to learn exiting exploitation technique.
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The hacking related stuff on BreakTheSecurity is only for education purposes. The tutorial and Demo provided in BreakTheSec.