If you’ve been in the realm of penetration (“pen”) testing in any capacity for any length of time, you’ve probably experienced the conversations around inconsistent pen testing results across teams or vendors. This isn’t anything new in the pen testing world. The conversations probably ranged from friendly internal team banter to more serious discussions with external vendors on pen testing program success metrics. Is this a case of mistaken identity?

As your business grows and your services scale in number and complexity, it’s difficult to maintain a rapid pace of innovation while keeping your applications secure. It’s particularly challenging to respond to attacks, as DevOps and security teams need to collaborate to understand each attack’s root cause and remediate the vulnerabilities that enabled it.

Vulnerability scanning is the action of conducting an automated review of your system to look for potential risks and vulnerabilities. For budding information security professionals (or even those who have worked in the field for years), there is always something new to learn. Not only is it a highly intricate and advanced field but, on a daily basis, there is a cat-and-mouse game happening between security engineers and hackers.

Healthcare statistics by HIPAA revealed that healthcare cybersecurity incidents fell by 8% in February 2022 but still faced 46 incidents affecting 2.5 million people.

Zero-day vulnerabilities present a very real threat to cybersecurity. Exploiting a zero-day vulnerability as an attack vector is a complex process, but it allows attackers to slip into your system undetected and leave without a trace.

What are the most common cybersecurity threats facing your business? The 2023 Cyber Threat Landscape Study provides valuable threat intelligence to help you implement the appropriate security measures against real threats. The Outpost24 research team is sharing the results of the attack data from a network of honeypots deployed to gather actionable threat intelligence. Here are the key findings from the 42 million attacks that were registered (between January 1 – September 30, 2022).