12 desirable reasons why an organization should carry out a penetration test:
- Assess potential business and operational impacts of successful attacks and determine the feasibility of a particular set of attack vectors.
- Identify higher-risk vulnerabilities resulting from lower-risk vulnerabilities exploited in a particular way.
- To comply with security regulations or standards, e.g. ISO 27001
, NIST CSF
, NIST 800-171
, HIPAA
, PCI DSS
or the EU GDPR
.
- To ensure the security of new applications or significant changes to business processes.
- To manage the risks of using a greater number and variety of outsourced services.
- To assess the risk of critical data or systems being compromised by an incident.
- In preparation for any upcoming external audits, such as FFIEC audits performed by third-party providers.
- To determine the weakness in the infrastructure (hardware), application (software) and people in order to develop controls.
- Save Remediation Costs and Reduces Network Downtime.
- To develop Efficient Security Measures.
- Provide evidence to support increased investments in security personnel and technology.
- At the end of the day, it’s basic due diligence, to find out about the vulnerability before someone else does.
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