Podcast: Penetration testing with Ed Skoudis
Cyber security consultant and trainer, Ed Skoudis, explains how thinking like a hacker can be the key to finding vulnerabilities in your control networks.
If you are trying to evaluate your cyber defenses, one sure test is to see if you can find a weak point and make it break. Such is the objective with penetration testing, where system evaluators use the same techniques as a hacker to probe for vulnerabilities and exploit them. When the hacker is working for you, there’s time to fix things before someone more malicious finds the same weakness.
Ed Skoudis is a co-founder of Inguardians and an instructor in penetration testing for theSANS Institute. In the podcast, he explains how penetration testing differs from more general vulnerability assessments, and how hackers can exploit low-level vulnerabilities by using them in combination. When a team of specialists starts to pull apart a system, each using his or her specific area skills, flaws can be identified before it’s too late.
Listen to the podcast now , and look for other cyber security podcasts and videos at CEtv . Also read our cyber security blog with Matt Luallen and Steve Hamburg .
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