[Dailydave] Penetration Testing considered harmful today..

Haroon Meer haroon at thinkst.com
Sun Mar 18 15:25:39 EDT 2012


Hiya(s)

(This bounced around the twitters all day today but figured it would
be interesting to hear thoughts from DD)

At 44Con-2011 we did a presentation titled: "Penetration Testing
considered harmful today"

The central thesis of the talk is that penetration testing has
established itself as a necessary activity for securing a network and
is now pushed forward by a multi million dollar industry despite the
clear signs that it is not helping all that much.

A link to the annotated slides and the video can be seen at:
http://blog.thinkst.com/2012/03/penetration-testing-considered-harmful.html

/haroon

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