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What is Penetration Testing?

What is Penetration Testing? | Guide to Pentesting

What is penetration testing? What are the different types of penetration testing? Why is it important for my business? Get answers to these questions and more in this definitive guide to pentesting.  

This guide is for people new to the world of penetration testing looking for a comprehensive overview. In this introductory whitepaper, you’ll explore: 

  • Best practices and benefits
  • Types of penetration testing services
  • What a typical engagement looks like
  • Criteria to help you choose your pentesting partner

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What is Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)?

PTaaS is NetSPI’s delivery model for penetration testing. It enables customers to simplify the scoping of new engagements, view their testing results in real time, orchestrate faster remediation, perform always-on continuous testing, and more - all through the Resolve™ vulnerability management and orchestration platform. Learn More

Why should I use NetSPI?

We help organizations defend against adversaries by being the best at simulating real-world, sophisticated adversaries with the products, services, and training we provide. We know how attackers think and operate, allowing us to help our customers better defend against the threats they face daily.

How does NetSPI ensure quality results?

At NetSPI, we believe that there is simply no replacement for human-led manual deep dive testing. Our Resolve platform delivers automation to ensure our people spend time looking for the critical vulnerabilities that tools miss. We provide automated and manual testing of all aspects of an organization’s entire attack surface, including external and internal network, application, cloud, and physical security.

Our proven methodology ensures that the client experience and our findings aren’t only as good as the latest tester assigned to your project. That consistency gives our customers assurance that if vulnerabilities exist, we will find them.