Penetration Test vs. Vulnerability Scan - INSUREtrust
Summary
When you create technology attached to the Internet, be it a website, app or a network server, you have to realize you’re going to be the target of hackers. A penetration test (or “pen test”) is a real, live hacking attempt performed on your product to find vulnerabilities and problems with it. In this situation, a cybersecurity expert acts as a real hacker might to target your product with the intention of finding how to disrupt or crash it. Penetration testing will combine this with an SMB Relay attack to potentially gain access to a separate system. Sailors adds that “Vulnerability scanning will not determine weak password attack vectors, but penetration tests will use these to gain access.” Here, it’s obvious that the real-live “hackers” can give a truer sense of what could happen in the event of an actual cyberattack.