You have been working hard for the past few weeks or months on the latest round of features for your flagship product. You are excited. The team is excited. Then a security test identifies a vulnerability. Balloons deflate and everyone starts to scramble. Take a breath. Not all vulnerabilities are created equal and the risk that each presents is vastly different. The organization should already have a process for triaging security findings. That process should be assessing the risk of the … [Read more...] about Does the End of an Iteration Change Your View of Risk?
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What is a Penetration Test
You spend all day looking at requirements, creating functionality and doing some testing of the code you just created. You have been working for months on this application making sure it worked as expected. The testers have been diligently working to ensure that the requirements have been fulfilled and the application will work as expected and allow the end users the capability to solve a specific set of tasks. Then it happens... You find out that a penetration test is coming. … [Read more...] about What is a Penetration Test