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paying a stranger to break into your house so a burglar can't.
means a penetration test is an authorized simulated attack on a system to find security holes before real attackers do.
from grew out of 1960s us military and rand corporation exercises probing computer defenses, formalized as a corporate practice by the 1990s once companies had networks worth robbing.
scope matterstesters sign contracts defining exactly what's fair game
not a scanautomated vuln scanners find flaws, pentesters exploit them
red team cousinred teams test people and process, not just code
report is the productthe real deliverable is the fix list, not the hack