Developers:<\/strong> Developers may be consulted for information on how the system works or what servers are involved (in the case of a white box pentest) by the pentester before the activity. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nWhat risks are involved with penetration testing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
One of the risks new technology executives fear most is the pentester. “If we give them leave to hack our systems, how do we know they won’t suddenly turn on us and hold us for ransom?” While such fears make for good movies or spy thrillers, this happens rarely in practice, so long as the enterprise uses a reputable firm or consultant to carry out the pentest. It is a risk, however, and CISOs are encouraged to communicate with one another across company boundaries to find trusted hackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Typically the pentester attacks a running system, which is often in the production environment, and must take care to not accidentally damage or modify any of the production data or servers. For safety’s sake, it may be tempting to have the pentester attack an environment other than production. But if the environments aren’t identical, the pentest loses some of its validity. Even for the most conscientious pentester, “accidents happen.” (Also keep in mind that in some industries, the pentester even viewing production data could be grounds for regulatory action against the company!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No matter how thoroughly the pentester tries to scan and explore the system, there is zero guarantee that the pentester has found every vulnerability in the system. Like any effort of its kind, the pentest can only describe the vulnerabilities found in the parts of the system that were tested. There is no guarantee that the pentester explored 100% of the system or found all the vulnerabilities in the parts that they tested. If a pentest comes back clean, don\u2019t assume that there are no vulnerabilities. (This can be a hard realization for an ITSec team, who will want to celebrate at a clean pentest result.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How does Azul help with penetration testing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Azul Vulnerability Detection, a feature of Azul Intelligennce Cloud, focuses scarce human effort where vulnerable code is or has been used versus simply present, to help reduce issue backlogs. Intelligence Cloud retains component and code-use history, focusing forensic efforts to determine if vulnerable code was actually exploited prior to it being known as vulnerable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inefficient prioritization of vulnerabilities & unused code wastes effort, hampers agility, and reduces developer productivity due to constant context switching and unproductive code maintenance tasks. Azul Vulnerability Detection is not another dashboard for <\/p>\n\n\n\n
customers to look at. Users can access data on which components are in use, and vulnerable, using either the product\u2019s API or an intuitive UI. The role of the web UI is to show the information we have and guide customers to the REST API. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n
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