Security News > 2020 > January > Why Penetration Tests Are So Essential

Corporate network security breaches, which can prove costly to remediate and expose a company to lawsuits, are frequently the result of vulnerabilities that could have been fixed for a relatively low cost.

During the internal phase, our team's white hack attackers moved around laterally within the entire network via the external access provided by the JBoss issue.

While the company's security team excelled at stopping our phishing attempts, none of the other penetration activity outside those two attempts was blocked anywhere.

Found six high-risk vulnerabilities, including SQL Inject and Command Execution, indicating that a comprehensive review of the entire network would reveal additional high-risk vulnerabilities';.

Had system privileges on all compromised systems, which enabled full admin privileges everywhere and across all networks; ;.

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