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Annual penetration testing serves as the baseline for cybersecurity best practice and can help businesses identify and address vulnerabilities before they turn into exploitable threats. While some businesses assume that once a year pen testing is sufficient, it’s worth understanding that it is a minimum requirement rather than a comprehensive security strategy.

The data protection law does not define PETs; however, The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) refers to PETs as: ‘software and hardware solutions, i.e. systems encompassing technical processes, methods or knowledge to achieve specific privacy or data protection functionality or to protect against risks of privacy of an individual or a group of natural persons.’1 In simple terms, they are strategies and tools designed at safeguarding privacy and empowering individuals.

Manual penetration testing is a meticulous process performed by skilled cybersecurity professionals who simulate real-world attack scenarios to identify weaknesses in systems, applications, and networks. In contrast to the automated approach, manual testing leverages human expertise, creativity, and critical thinking to detect vulnerabilities in the unique context of your organisation’s infrastructure.