Melissa Delaney is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Maybe it’s that mail server that IT forgot to ...

I recently wrote about how COVID-19 was driving rapid and dynamic changes for CISOs and a series of cybersecurity phases CISOs are now pursuing to assess and mitigate COVID-19-based cyber risks. In ...

I’ve been doing a lot of vulnerability and penetration testing for a customer who wants to see various simulated attacks and possible outcomes. I’ve been a penetration tester going on 10 years, and it ...

Penetration testing, often referred to as pen testing, is a critical practice in the field of cybersecurity. It involves simulating cyber-attacks on a system, network, or web application to identify ...

Social engineering is an attacker's most effective weapon -- Kevin Mitnick's newly released memoirs are a testament to that fact. In a physical penetration test, the attacker's goal is to get inside ...

In this post, we'll look at ten of the most useful pentesting tools. The practice of detecting and eliminating software, network, and system vulnerabilities is known as penetration testing. It's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I offer insight on cyber security issues for businesses and consumers. This article is more than 10 years old. For the second post ...

How big an issue is the weaponization of pen-testing tools and how can it be mitigated? Davey Winder explores. Cobalt Strike is a penetration-testing tool used by red teams, providing adversary ...

Penetration testing is vital in keeping an organization’s digital assets secure. Here are the top picks among the latest pen testing tools and software. Explore Get the web's best business technology ...

The constantly changing cyber world and the rapid adoption of cloud and digital transformation have increased the attack surface multifolds. On the other hand, cyber attackers are using sophisticated ...