XSS
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What Is Penetration Testing
Penetration testing (pen testing) is a legal and authorized simulated cyber-attack on a computer system to evaluate its security. Pen testers act like real hackers: they use the same tools, techniques, and thinking to find and show weaknesses that could hurt the business.
What is Vulnerability Assessment
A vulnerability assessment is the process of checking a system to find security weaknesses. The goal is to know whether a system can be attacked, how dangerous the weakness is, and how to fix it.
Understanding what Threat, Vulnerability, Risk, Impact, Severity, and assesing Severity based on CVSS
A threat is anything that has the potential to do damage, even if the damage has not happened yet. In this case, a thief who walks around looking for houses to break into is the threat. The thief might or might not attack, but the possibility exists, and that possibility itself is the threat.