Pentester: Why Is It Worth Hiring One for Your Company?
The days of computer break-ins done just “for fun” are long, long gone. Nowadays, our companies aren’t attacked, as they once were, mostly by enthusiasts who just wanted to test their skills.
Today, most attacks are carried out by specially organized cybercriminal groups whose goal is to steal data from your company or to blackmail you for financial gain.
Who can protect us from this? Certainly, in some way, the companies that provide solutions designed to defend against this type of activity, such as web application firewalls, specialized antivirus software, and so on. But even these solutions fail – they can be bypassed, or they may simply be misconfigured.
An in-house pentester will find vulnerabilities in your applications, allowing you to fix them and prevent a hacker from getting into your network. The pentester works for the company, and, just like a hacker, looks for vulnerabilities in the company’s applications and presents ways to improve security.
Of course, our approach isn’t to wait until criminals do what the pentester should be protecting your company against. It’s worth hiring a pentester for your company.