Cyber: What is penetration testing?

Every day in the news, we hear about breaches to company data. Companies spend a significant budget protecting data to avoid the monetary loss, customer loss, and overall embarrassment. Examples include Target user data hack and Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. Protecting a company's assets is only one side of the cybersecurity equations. Understanding how nefarious entities can gain access and disrupt a business is just as important. This offense aspect requires understanding the hacker's attacking mindset. Our panel of cybersecurity experts talks about penetration testing and its place in protecting a company.

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