Penetration testing and vulnerability management, a key strategy to evaluate network security
By Javier and Ana Areitio Bertolin
This article examines the result of combining penetration tests in conjunction with vulnerability management, giving rise to an essential modern strategy so that every organization can rigorously and precisely know how its level of information security is, as well as It allows assessing the degree of existing security, justifying changes or the inclusion of new additional security measures and, ultimately, improving security from a real point of view, so that the risk levels selected by those responsible for said organization can be met. with the minimum of resources used. A very important issue today is being able to know the quality of the security that is incorporated into companies. This article describes how to professionally determine-evaluate, at the operational level, the security level of an organization and, if necessary, remedy it.
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