PEN TESTING ESSENTIAL TO PROTECT FINANCIAL DATA AS CLOUD-BASED SYSTEMS BECOME MORE COMMON
August 1st, 2017
WITH hacking an ever-present and growing threat to the security of commercially confidential - and especially financial - information, companies are being encouraged to hold their noses and invest in ethical hacking to secure their financial systems. This is especially the case now that more business is conducted via cloud-based systems.
Professionals are increasingly offering their mettle to test companies’ IT vulnerabilities by trying to access them through ‘penetration testing’ or ‘pen testing’.
These IT experts will, on invitation only, use ...
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