Penetration tests are more important now than ever before, says Gartner Group. CISOs who swear by these tests say you just need to sharpen your approach to them to make them useful. Security analyst John Pescatore cautions that legitimate tests are too costly and time-intensive to do more than once a quarter a quarter. A well-executed penetration test can identify the most critical holes in an organization’s defensive net, he says. The first step in making penetration tests valuable is to understand how they should fit into the security arsenal.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2120194/security–penetration-testing.html