the.com/penetration testing
paying a hacker to break in before a criminal does it for free.
means an authorized simulated cyberattack on a system to find exploitable vulnerabilities before real attackers do.
from traces to 1960s rand corporation studies on computer security, formalized when the us air force ran tiger team exercises in the 1970s to probe its own systems for weaknesses.
tiger teamscold war era term for early government pentesters
red vs blueattackers are red team, defenders are blue team
scope matterstesters can be sued if they step outside agreed boundaries
zero day valueunpatched flaws found here sell for six figures elsewhere
for instance
defcon capture the flag — las vegas contest since 1996 pitting elite hacking teams live
pwn2own — annual contest since 2007 paying real cash for browser and os exploits
hackerone bug bounties — platform paid out over 300 million dollars to ethical hackers since 2012
twitter 2020 breach test — aftermath spurred companies to mandate regular social engineering pentests