Most UK businesses pen test once a year. But annual testing is a minimum, not a strategy. This guide explains when your penetration test frequency needs to increase and what …
cyber security
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An external penetration test simulates an outside attacker probing your perimeter. An internal test simulates what happens once someone is already inside. Both answer different questions, and your organisation probably …
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A vulnerability assessment scans your IT systems for known security weaknesses, rates each one by severity, and produces a prioritised fix list. This guide explains how the process works, what …
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Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing both assess your security, but they answer different questions. Here is what each does, when to use it, and what UK businesses get wrong about …
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UK penetration test pricing ranges from £800 to £50,000+, but the cheapest options often deliver automated scan reports rather than real testing. This guide explains how to identify quality and …
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Three-quarters of UK critical infrastructure incidents last year were state-sponsored. Here is what the NCSC recommends and why most businesses are in the threat picture.
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External network, web application, internal, API, cloud, social engineering: the types of penetration testing explained, with a practical guide to deciding which your business should commission first.
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Penetration testing is a controlled attack on your own systems to find exploitable weaknesses before real attackers do. This guide covers how it differs from a vulnerability scan, the main …
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TLDR: Cloudflare successfully defended against a record-breaking 11.5 terabits per second DDoS attack that lasted just 35 seconds. The massive UDP flood originated primarily from compromised resources on Google Cloud …
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Race condition penetration testing plays a vital role in ensuring application security by identifying vulnerabilities caused by concurrency issues. These vulnerabilities can lead to unpredictable behaviour, data breaches, and exploitation …