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Penetration testing and vulnerability assessment
1. Penetration testing and vulnerability assessment
What is the purpose of penetration testing?
- Checking spelling in the user interface
- Measuring how fast pages load
- Authorised, simulated attacks to find exploitable weaknesses
- Backing up the database
Answer
C
Penetration testers act like attackers (with permission) to show which vulnerabilities can actually be exploited.