{"id":3038,"date":"2015-01-28T23:26:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T23:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-infoblox-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:30:15","slug":"penetration-testing-has-its-time-come-and-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/company\/penetration-testing-has-its-time-come-and-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Penetration Testing \u2013 Has Its Time Come and Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK version of\u00a0SC<\/em>\u00a0magazine recently published an article of mine on the validity \u2013 or lack thereof \u2013 of penetration testing.<\/p>\n

The explosion of new elements of IT infrastructure \u2013 mobile devices, cloud, even shadow IT \u2013 are stretching the boundaries of the network further than ever before. Logically, this would suggest that pen testing is now more important than ever, but perhaps this isn\u2019t necessarily the case.<\/p>\n

The fact is, malware is evolving. In the past, cyberattacks were done for fame rather than for damage, and as such, tended to be noisy, generating logs and alerts in their trail and were therefore easy to identify and quarantine. In today\u2019s threat landscape, advanced persistent threats (APTs) are designed to be almost invisible, silently entering a network and remaining undetected for as long as possible until they contact other machines to surreptitiously send data.<\/p>\n

That means that security teams need to focus elsewhere \u2013 not on what\u2019s making its way into the system, but on what\u2019s making its way out.<\/p>\n

To read the story in full, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UK version of\u00a0SC\u00a0magazine recently published an article of mine on the validity \u2013 or lack thereof \u2013 of penetration testing. The explosion of new elements of IT infrastructure \u2013 mobile devices, cloud, even shadow IT \u2013 are stretching the boundaries of the network further than ever before. 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