Testing Your Cybersecurity

Penetration tests, assessments, audits, red teams, and bug bounties

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Leveraging pentesting, assessments, audits, and bug bounties is my next of 20 questions to ask your security team in my series of posts on Cybersecurity for Executives. Perfect timing as I’m speaking on the topic of cloud pentesting at AWS re:Invent in session DVC01 in just over a week. The next few blog posts talk about this topic.

Validating security controls are in place — and working

Organizations should periodically validate that their efforts to implement cybersecurity are working. Although your teams may be working diligently to implement secure solutions, gaps may exist due to lack of training, knowledge about new cybersecurity threats, or because someone made a mistake. The other risk is that an insider may be intentionally misconfiguring systems. Having an internal or outside team or third party test your systems can help you find gaps and misconfigurations you might…